Brain Matters

Sohee Park, Ph.D.
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...

Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
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
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, Oil, 10" x 8", by Doris Dahlgren
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...

Grigori Enikolopov, Ph.D.
Grigori Enikolopov, Ph.D.
May 13, 2011

Research conducted by Foundation Grantee Grigori Enikolopov, Ph.D., is the cover story of the May 6 issue of Cell Stem Cell. Dr. Enikolopov’s study offers an explanation for why our brains produce fewer and fewer neurons...

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