Society for Neuroscience 2025 Outstanding Career and Research Achievement Awards
Grant and Award Announcement
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 3-Nov-2025 14:11 ET (3-Nov-2025 19:11 GMT/UTC)
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor five leading researchers whose impactful work has transformed neuroscience — including the understanding of memory, synapse formation, social reinforcement in addiction, and how neurons make sense of input noise — with this year’s Outstanding Career and Research Achievement Awards. The awards will be presented during SfN’s annual meeting.
CHICAGO, IL — Since the start of the 21st century, more than 800,000 people in the US have died from firearm-related injuries, and over two million have been injured. These harms stem from homicide, suicide, and unintentional shootings, reverberating through communities and resulting in psychological, social, and economic consequences that go far beyond physical injury.
Amid these persistent challenges, JAMA and JAMA Network convened a JAMA Summit in March 2025, bringing together 60 thought leaders from medicine, public health, law, industry, and community violence intervention, with a singular focus: how to substantially reduce firearm harms. Today, JAMA publishes the JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms, a blueprint for action featuring experts from across sectors committed to advancing evidence-based solutions to reduce firearm-related injury and death.
A new report proposes a range of initiatives to substantially reduce the harm caused by firearm violence in the United States over the next 15 years. The report, to be published Nov. 3 in the journal JAMA, proposes a range of initiatives. These include using artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies to detect concealed weapons, and expanding programs that address poverty, social distrust and other factors behind violence in American communities. Since 2000, more than 800,000 Americans have been killed and more than 2 million injured by firearms. The report summarizes discussions of 60 experts in public health, criminology, sociology, social work, public policy and other fields. “We really tried to step back and think about what innovations are needed to address the firearm problem in a new way — realizing we live in a country with a Second Amendment and somewhere around 400 million firearms in private hands,” said Dr. Frederick P. Rivara, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He chaired the summit.
Skipping breakfast or practicing intermittent fasting is unlikely to cloud most adults’ thinking in the short term, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
According to data from the National Statistics Institute, 24 million school transport journeys take place in Spain every year. A team of professors from the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has conducted a study showing that the time students spend traveling to their schools, especially on long bus rides, can negatively affect their academic engagement. This lower engagement can also have emotional and social consequences.
The data revealed that students who spend more time commuting report lower engagement than those who arrive sooner. Engagement is understood as the student’s involvement or connection with their academic goals, and it comprises three different but interrelated dimensions: affective-emotional, cognitive and behavioral. In the case of secondary and upper secondary students, it is important to consider that they face numerous challenges, which require developing skills and competencies that enhance their learning, an aspect closely linked to academic engagement.
“We believe they experience a more negative relationship with their place of study, which may affect their interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers (affective-emotional engagement), their psychological involvement in the teaching and learning process—such as motivation to learn, expectations, or the effort to understand complex ideas and skills (cognitive engagement)—and their overall participation and effort (behavioral engagement)”, the researchers explain.
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) linguists have analysed murals in Lithuania’s second-largest city as elements of a “linguistic landscape” – a concept that views language as both visual and spatial. Their study reveals that street art in Kaunas acts as a form of cultural activism and collective memory, blending languages, images, and historical narratives.
New findings underscore the importance of regular social interactions in life, shedding light on the strong link between loneliness and sustained social isolation to memory decline and conditions such as dementia, and why social and memory impairments often co-occur in psychiatric disorders.