Discoveries

Deborah E. Barnes, Ph.D., M.P.H., University of California, San Francisco
Deborah E. Barnes, Ph.D., M.P.H.
January 19, 2012

Cognitive abilities tend to decline with age. Although there is considerable variability in degree from one person to another, a large percentage of the very old develop dementia. By contrast, depression is not a normal...

Paola Dazzan, M.D., Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Paola Dazzan, M.D.
January 19, 2012

Paola Dazzan, M.D., who leads early psychosis research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, has pursued the goal of applying neuroimaging to the study of psychosis with support from three NARSAD Grants....

Joel E. Kleinman, M.D., Ph.D. of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Joel E. Kleinman, M.D., Ph.D.
January 19, 2012

Joel E. Kleinman, M.D., Ph.D., winner of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research in 2011, is working to unravel the mystery of what goes awry in the...


January 18, 2012

An Impressive Year of Progress: from establishing early intervention techniques and working toward diagnostic tools, to proving the effectiveness of next generation therapies, to advancing basic research and our...

Joan Luby, M.D. of Washington University in St. Louis
Joan Luby, M.D.
January 16, 2012

Recent research has shown that children as young as 3 years old can experience symptoms of clinical depression. Research has also shown that half of all cases of depression arise during childhood. While evidence suggests...

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