Discoveries

NARSAD Grantee Ya-Ping Tang, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Expert on PTSD
Ya-Ping Tang, M.D., Ph.D.
April 12, 2013

The experience of trauma during teen years is a known risk factor for the later development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The National Institutes of Health reported in 2005 that PTSD (an often debilitating...

Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Expert on optogenetics, CLARITY, depression, autism
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
April 10, 2013

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member and NARSAD Grantee, Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., led a team at Stanford in developing a new experimental method they are calling "CLARITY," that enables...

William E. Copeland, Ph.D. of Duke University Medical Center and expert on anxiety disorders and depression
William E. Copeland, Ph.D.
April 08, 2013

Research supported in part by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation finds that children who bully, are bullied, or experience both being bullied and bullying are more likely to have mental illnesses, including...

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Grantee Xiang Cai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Southern Illinois University, Expert on depression
Xiang Cai, Ph.D.
April 05, 2013

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Grantee Xiang Cai, Ph.D., used his NARSAD Young Investigator Grant to study malfunction in communication between brain cells as a potential cause of depression. Instead of focusing...

Debby W. Tsuang, M.D., M.Sc. Expert on schizophrenia
Debby W. Tsuang, M.D., M.Sc.
April 03, 2013

Debby W. Tsuang, M.D., M.Sc., with the support of a NARSAD Independent Investigator Grant, used innovative family-based methods to study genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia. The results of the research team’s work,...

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