Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience Archives - News Center

Surgeons performing brain surgery in an operating room with computer screens around them.

Health & Medicine

New brain-mapping technology enhances tumor surgery at URochester

A new surgical platform called MindTrace helps surgeons predict and protect critical brain functions during tumor operations.

Ralf Haefner, Adam Snyder, and Shizhao Liu stand in front of a whiteboard covered in writing.

Science & Technology

Learning makes brain cells work together, not apart

A new study overturns a long-standing theory in neuroscience.

Two male researchers sit in a dimly lit office and look at a large computer screen displaying red and green chevrons in motion. One researcher is wearing an eye-tracking device.

Science & Technology

The brain uses eye movements to see in 3D

February 4, 2026

Contrary to long-standing beliefs, motion from eye movements helps the brain perceive depth—a finding that could enhance virtual reality.

System of colorful neurons with glowing connections against a dark background.

Science & Technology

Do neurons transmit light?

Rochester researchers aim to determine if neurons can transport light like fiber-optic communications channels.

Woman with large oversized glasses looks on and listens as two people nearby off-camera speak and gesticulate.

Science & Technology

How does the brain cut through noise to understand speech?

January 13, 2025

Rochester researchers investigate how visual cues enhance the brain’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments.

Illustration of row of people from behind, holding hands, looking on at new Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute building.

From the Magazine

A catalyst for change

December 4, 2024

The new Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute will drive transformations in research, training, care, and advocacy.

Woman with a string of lit lights around her head and arms raised during the nighttime to illustrate the concept of bioluminescent optogenetics.

Science & Technology

Turning brain cells on using the power of light

October 3, 2024

Rochester researchers have refined the noninvasive method of bioluminescent optogenetics to activate parts of the brain.

Aerial view of the University of Rochester's Medical Center campus.

Health & Medicine

Tom Golisano makes $50 million commitment to the University of Rochester

The historic gift, the largest single one in University history, will build the new Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute.

High school student in a head scarf, face mask, and lab gear practices soldering to repair lab equipment while a lab tech looks on.

Pipeline program lets East High students experience life in the lab

Lulu Abdullahi (right), a junior at East High School in the Rochester City School District, practices soldering to repair an experiment component with Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. For six weeks, Abdullahi and a classmate visited campus as part of NEUROEAST, a new Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience program.

person sitting in a chair wearing a virtual reality headset and surrounded by speakers as another person adjusts the headset

Science & Technology

New training in AR/VR tech gives Rochester doctoral students an edge

September 18, 2019

A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will establish a structured, well-rounded training program for University scholars applying augmented and virtual reality in health, education, design, and other fields.