Stories by Daniela Schiller

Daniela Schiller is an associate professor of both neuroscience and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She researches the neural mechanisms underlying emotional control needed to adapt to constantly changing environments. Credit: Nick Higgins

Neuroscience

In Search of the Brain’s Social Road Maps

Neural circuits that track our whereabouts in space and time may also play vital roles in determining how we relate to other people

January 14, 2020 — Matthew Schafer and Daniela Schiller

Neuroscience

Falling Walls: Social Relationships as a Spatial Problem

The hippocampus appears to keep track of social dynamics just as it tracks us moving physically through real spaces

October 31, 2018 — Daniela Schiller

Mind & Brain

How Free Is Your Will?

A clock face, advanced neurosurgery--and startling philosophical questions about the decision to act

March 22, 2011 — Daniela Schiller and David Carmel

Mind & Brain

Snakes in the MRI Machine: A Study of Courage

What courage looks like in the brain--in real time

July 20, 2010 — Daniela Schiller