Discoveries

Optogenetics was developed by Scientific Council Member Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., with the support of a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant in 2005. The new technology uses light to make neurons fire one at a time, giving researchers extraordinary control over specific brain circuits in living animals. Now in use at over 1,000 laboratories, the new method is enabling identification of the mechanisms that give rise to depression, anxiety, PTSD and other brain and behavior disorders.
Optogenetics
November 19, 2012
Optogenetics Stimulates the Functioning of Stem Cell-Derived Neurons

Scientists are currently able to make neurons and other brain cells from stem cells, but getting these neurons to properly function when transplanted to the host has proven to be more difficult. Now, researchers at...

TAGS: Brain Matters, General Mental Illness, New Technologies, Discoveries
Larry R. Squire, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Research and a Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Diego. Expert on memory and the brain
Larry R. Squire, Ph.D.
November 16, 2012
Dr. Larry Squire Honored for Outstanding Work in Cognitive Neuroscience

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation celebrated 25 years of Empowering Research for Productive Lives and honored eight extraordinary scientists at its Annual National Awards Dinner in New York City on October 26....

TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, General Mental Illness, Video, Discoveries
Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., Two-time NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee and neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expert on anxiety
Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.
November 14, 2012
Two-Decade Study Reveals How Infant Stress in Girls is Linked to Mental Illness in Adolescence

Two-time NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., helped lead a study showing a causal relationship between stress experienced in infancy and abnormal brain connectivity causing anxiety and...

TAGS: Brain Matters, Children & Adolescents, Diagnostic Tools / Early Intervention, Discoveries, Depression, Anxiety
Gavin Rumbaugh Ph.D., NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee and assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute, Expert on Autism
Gavin Rumbaugh Ph.D.
November 12, 2012
NARSAD Grantee Leads Research Finding Potentially Preventable Cause of Autism

Gavin Rumbaugh Ph.D., NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee and assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute, led new research finding that mutations in a single gene, known to cause intellectual disability and...

TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Discoveries, Autism
Matthew State, M.D., Ph.D., Donald J. Cohen Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Genetics, and Deputy Chairman for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and expert on autism
Matthew State, M.D., Ph.D.
November 08, 2012
Dr. Matthew State Honored for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Research

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation celebrated 25 years of Empowering Research for Productive Lives and honored eight extraordinary scientists at its Annual National Awards Dinner in New York City on October 26...

TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Children & Adolescents, Video, Discoveries, Autism

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