Brain Matters

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation used generally to treat depression, is now being used to treat schizophrenia symptoms
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
March 14, 2013

A team of researchers from the University of Toronto, led by Zafiris J. Daskalakis, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C), three-time NARSAD Grantee and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, recently discovered that...

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member, Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D. of Stanford University, Expert on Optogenetics and Depression
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
March 13, 2013

In 2005, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member, Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D. of Stanford University, used his NARSAD Young Investigator Grant to develop the new technology, ‘optogenetics,’...

NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, Martin Schalling, M.D., Ph.D., Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, Expert on Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
Martin Schalling, M.D., Ph.D.
March 12, 2013

NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, Martin Schalling, M.D., Ph.D. was among a team of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden who recently discovered a genetic variant of an enzyme in the brain that...

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member and three-time NARSAD Grantee, Rene Hen, Ph.D. of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), Expert on Anxiety and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Rene Hen, Ph.D.
March 08, 2013

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member and three-time NARSAD Grantee, Rene Hen, Ph.D. of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) led a team of researchers that may have found a way to reduce...

NARSAD Grantee, Aristotle Voineskos, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C) from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Expert on Schizophrenia
Dr. Aristotle Voineskos
March 06, 2013

In a new imaging-genetics study, NARSAD Grantees have uncovered a single gene that may explain dramatic differences among people with schizophrenia. The study, led by NARSAD Grantees, Aristotle Voineskos, M.D., Ph.D.,...

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