A diagnosis of schizophrenia is often preceded by a "prodromal" phase of the illness, in which milder symptoms are present for weeks or even years before developing into full-blown psychosis. With the use of brain imaging...
Discoveries
Scott A. Schobel, M.D.
April 29, 2013
Greer Murphy, M.D, Ph.D.
April 25, 2013
NARSAD Grantee, Greer Murphy, M.D, Ph.D., was among a team of researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine who recently identified genetic variants encoding a protein secreted in the brain that impaired the...
Jonathan Mill, Ph.D
April 23, 2013
In the largest study of its kind to date, NARSAD Grant-supported researcher Jonathan Mill, Ph.D., of King's College London and the University of Exeter, and team studied 100 identical twins, including some with autism...
Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D.
April 19, 2013
Occasional stress may actually have a positive impact on the brain according to a new study by lead author Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D., a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation 2009 NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee, and...
David Shaffer, M.D.
April 18, 2013
When he first heard about it in the late 1970s, David Shaffer, M.D., remembers being not only “skeptical” but in a state of disbelief. Just as his career in psychiatry was getting under way, an important study found that...
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