October 8th: Chris Lewis's recent paper was mentioned in a recent WU press release. Find the release here and the PNAS cover-story paper Learning sculpts the spontaneous activity of the resting human brain here.

October 7th: Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., has been named head of the Department of Genetics and the James S. McDonnell Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. See the full story here

May 15th: in a BOLD move Gaurav Patel asked and obtained Susan Mahoney's hand during his graduation party--way to go Gaurav!

May 15th: Chad Sylvester & Gaurav Patel were hooded by Maurizio Corbetta, and were awarded their MD/PhD. Congratulations Guys!

May 8th: The paper: Fronto-parietal cortex controls spatial attention through modulation of anticipatory alpha rhythms, was published in Journal of Neuroscience.
You can read the press release here.

May 4th: Chad Sylvester received the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Medical Fellows Awards as most accomplished graduate student at Washington University

April 1st: The lab has been awarded 3.2 million dollars from the JS McDonnell Foundation to study the neurophysiology of mild traumatic brain injury as part of the 'Attention Dynamics Consortium' that includes the Brain Trauma Foundation, WUSL, Cornell, UCSF, UCSD and the Salk Institute

March 24th: The paper Fronto-parietal cortex controls spatial attention through modulation of anticipatory alpha rhythms has recently been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience.

March 23rd: PhD/MD students Chad Sylvester and Gaurav Patel both recently matched in psychiatry! Chad will be here at the Washington University Medical school while Gaurav is going to Columbia University in New York.

Additionally, Annalisa Tosoni recently successfully defended her dissertation at University 'G. d'Annunzio' in Chieti to receive her PhD summa cum laude.

March 1st: Gordon Shulman's paper Interaction of stimulus-driven reorienting and expectation in ventral and dorsal fronto-parietal and basal ganglia-cortical networks was recently accepted for publication by the Journal of Neuroscience. A brief summary of the paper can be found here.

Feb 11th: Seth E. Bouvier's review of Top-Down Control of Human Visual Cortex by Frontal and Parietal Cortex in Anticipatory Visual Spatial Attention can be found here.

Jan 9th: Recruiting has begun for 2 new behavioral studies! Click here for details on how you can participate.

Nov 11th: Annalisa Tosoni recently had her paper Sensory-motor mechanisms in human parietal cortex underlie arbitrary visual decisions accepted by Nature Neuroscience.  The press release can be found here and the paper itself here.