Amy Arnsten, PhD, Albert E. Kent professor of Neuroscience, received the 2026 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize, awarded by the Schaller-Nikolich Foundation in association with the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and the Society for Neuroscience. Arnsten was honored for her foundational work in understanding the distinctive molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms that underlie executive brain functions.
Her work has transformed understanding of how recently evolved prefrontal cortical circuits support working memory, abstract thought, and goal-directed behavior, and how these circuits are dynamically regulated by neuromodulatory systems and vulnerable to disruption by stress, aging, and disease.