My beautiful son Jonathon committed suicide on April 28th, 2010, after being diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression. He was only 22. I love Jonathon so much and I feel it is my job as his mommy to make the ripple...
Brain Matters
Sohee Park, Ph.D.
May 26, 2011
Foundation Grantee Sohee Park, Ph.D., and colleagues at Vanderbilt University have discovered that impairments in a brain area involved in perception of social stimuli may be partly responsible for the difficulty...
TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Schizophrenia
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
May 20, 2011
Optogenetics, a new technology invented by Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., with the help of a Foundation Young Investigator Grant, gives researchers extraordinary control over specific brain circuits — and with it, new...
Wall Street Journal
May 19, 2011
A Wall Street Journal article highlights Foundation Grantee Madhukar Trivedi, M.D., and a study he co-authored showing that when a mother’s depression is successfully treated, her children get progressively better, too...
Poppies by Doris Dahlgren
May 18, 2011
Doris was a 4.0 college student who majored in international relations. She taught piano and began painting when she was 25. At age 46, she was diagnosed with manic-depression. She has been active at Stanford University...
TAGS: Blog, Brain Matters, NARSAD Artworks, Bipolar Disorder
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