A key environmental factor contributing to and highly predictive of psychiatric illness is stress. Children with a history of trauma or maltreatment are at enormous lifetime risk for anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicide,...
Brain Matters
Joan Kaufman, Ph.D.
February 01, 2011
Young Investigators
January 31, 2011
Earlier this month NARSAD announced grant awards to 214 new Young Investigators. Totaling $12.6 million, these grants are part of the continued investment NARSAD makes in brilliant researchers with the most promising...
TAGS: Blog, Brain Matters, Discoveries
Your Brain on Improv and a Call to Action for Mental Illness
January 28, 2011
NARSAD Scientific Council Member’s New Technology Helps Neuroscientists Identify How Neurons Work Together
The technology optogenetics, developed by NARSAD Scientific Council Member Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.,...
TAGS: Blog, Brain Matters, Autism
Improve your health by getting up from your computer
January 21, 2011
Antti Alaräisäselle NARSAD-apuraha
This is what a NARSAD Young Investigator grant announcement looks like in Finnish! Congratulations to Antti Alaräisänen, M.D, University of Oulu, one of the 214 promising new...
TAGS: Blog, Brain Matters, Discoveries, Autism
Winter Sky by Aranda Michaels
January 20, 2011
Born in New York City, Aranda Michaels was a self-taught artist. She relocated to Oregon in the 1980s. A marvel with pen and ink and also skilled with watercolor and acrylics, she was always open to new ideas and mediums...
TAGS: Blog, Brain Matters, NARSAD Artworks, Other Illnesses
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