A research team from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine led by 2005 NARSAD Independent Investigator, Mary Phillips, M.D. used a novel technique to predict future mental illness in teens at risk for mental illness from...
Anxiety
Did you know that 40 million American adults live with Anxiety Disorders each year?
Recent Foundation-supported research is leading toward increased understanding of causes and possibilities for treatment of anxiety disorders, such as:
- Discovering an anxiety-reducing circuit within the brain’s ‘fear’ center or amygdala
- Demonstrating that blocking electrical synapses in the brain can prevent fear memories to a place, context or event from forming - which may have major implications in treating PTSD
- Identifying a single gene that is linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), enabling development of better treatments
Mary Phillips, M.D.
April 03, 2012
TAGS: Brain Matters, Diagnostic Tools / Early Intervention, General Mental Illness, Discoveries, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety
Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.
February 07, 2012
Scientific Council Member, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D. of Columbia University Medical Center presents an overview of the current state of mental healthcare, offering specific recommendations on how to continue to improve it. He notes that “the care for persons with mental illness is better now than ever before in human history,...
TAGS: Brain Matters, Next Generation Therapies, Discoveries, Schizophrenia, Depression, Anxiety, ADHD
January 18, 2012
An Impressive Year of Progress: from establishing early intervention techniques and working toward diagnostic tools, to proving the effectiveness of next generation therapies, to advancing ...
Keming Gao, M.D., Ph.D.
November 15, 2011
For people with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder─complex, heterogeneous illnesses on their own─having other brain and behavior disorders at the same time is the rule rather than the exception. This concurrence of conditions, called co-morbidity, not...
September 22, 2011
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation will honor 8 extraordinary scientists with Outstanding Research Achievement Prizes for their accomplishments in brain and behavior research in New York City on ...
TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Outstanding Achievement Prizes, Discoveries, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety
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Q: Is OCD an Anxiety Disorder?
A: “OCD right now sits in the Anxiety Disorders [in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual or DSM IV] and certainly OCD patients when they confront the situations that generate the stress have a lot of...
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