Brain Matters

Meet the Scientist Webinar featuring Depression Expert, Myrna Weissman, Ph.D. of Columbia University and Brain & Behavior Research Foundation CEO, Jeffrey Borenstein
"Depression in Families" Webinar
February 14, 2013

On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation presented a Meet the Scientist Webinar featuring Dr. Myrna Weissman of Columbia University. She presented an interactive presentation on "...

NARSAD Grantee Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Ph.D., , expert on schizophrenia, at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Ph.D.
February 12, 2013

Researchers have discovered a protein deficiency that results in mild chronic brain inflammation and is thought to lead to schizophrenia-related symptoms, such as working memory deficits, self-neglect, decreased social...

Hongjun Song, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Expert on Depression
Hongjun Song, Ph.D.
February 11, 2013

Building on findings from stem cell research in 2011 that helped explain how the brain can regenerate, NARSAD Grantees performed a sophisticated series of experiments and analyses that led them to discover a protein that...

John L. R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D., Brain Researcher, expert in schizophrenia and autism
John Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D.
February 07, 2013

Collaborating researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed an atlas of the brain’s “gene enhancers” (or regulators) in the cerebrum and made it...

NARSAD Grantee John A. Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D., neuroscientist, University of Iowa, Expert on panic disorders and other Anxiety Disorders
John A. Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D.
February 04, 2013

The unexpected outcome of research by NARSAD Grantee John A. Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D., neuroscientist, University of Iowa and his colleagues, has implications for the future study and treatment of people with panic disorders....

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