"The Scientist Magazine Award" The Purves lab website has been voted the "Best of the Web" by the editors of The Scientist magazine! You can read more about it here.

"Top 100 Discoveries of the Year" - Discover Magazine judged the recent work from the lab on music as one of the top 100 "Discoveries of the Year". For more information, visit Discover Magazine - 100 Top Science Stories of 2007: January 2008.

New books - The fourth edition of Neuroscience was published by Sinauer Associates in July 2007, t. For more information, visit Sinauer's website or click here.

The first edition of Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience was published by Sinauer Associates in November 2007. This is a textbook written for graduate and undergraduate students seeking an introduction to this emerging field. For more information, visit Sinauer's websiste or click here.

Out of print books - Parts or all of several Purves books that have recently gone out of print (Principles of Neural Development, Body and Brain, and Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain) are now available as downloads for those who may be interested in the material covered.