Brain Matters

Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace
April 10, 2012

Legendary news anchor and award-winning journalist, Mike Wallace passed away on April 7, 2012 at the age of 93. As the pioneer of the hugely popular, "60 Minutes" TV news show, Wallace was best known for his unique...

Ron Davis, Ph.D. Expert on Memory from Scripps Research Institute
Ron Davis, Ph.D.
May 15, 2012

NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, Ron Davis, Ph.D., is the lead author of a new study that identified a mechanism essential for both forming memories and eliminating them after memories have formed. Dr. Davis is chairman of the Scripps Research Department of Neuroscience.

Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, MPH, Alzheimer's Disease and Depression Expert
Deborah Barnes, PhD, MPH
May 09, 2012

NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee, Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), is the lead author of a new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry that found that depressive symptoms that occur in both midlife and latelife are associated...

Mark Bellgrove, PH.D. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) expert
Mark Bellgrove, PH.D.
May 07, 2012

The largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted is helping researchers understand why some teenagers start smoking or experimenting with drugs and others don’t. NARSAD grantee Mark Bellgrove, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Psychology at ...

HDAC6 treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research
HDAC6
May 01, 2012

Two-time NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee, Olivier Berton, Ph.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a team of researchers have shown that the...

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