Bipolar disorder is characterized by cycles of mania and depression. Although the manic state is more dramatic, the depressed state is experienced three times more frequently. A number of medications and modalities are...
Discoveries
Lori Altshuler, M.D.
August 26, 2011
Amy F. T. Arnsten, Ph.D.
August 26, 2011
You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to know that certain of our mental faculties decline as we age. Memory is one instance or, in many people, the ability to concentrate. A NARSAD Distinguished Investigator at Yale...
Hongjun Song, Ph.D.
August 26, 2011
The adult mammalian brain can generate new cells, an ability crucial to healthy brain functioning but one that can be compromised by aging or illness. In the June 24 issue of the journal Cell, Brain & Behavior...
TAGS: Basic Research, Discoveries, Autism
Anthony J. Rothschild, M.D.
August 26, 2011
Psychotic depression, which is major depressive disorder combined with psychotic delusions or hallucinations, often goes undiagnosed. The kinds of delusions that tend to typify this condition often involve fears, such as...
Guy A. Rouleau, M.D., Ph.D.
August 26, 2011
Many studies have shown that schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder; that it is largely triggered by inherited genetic mutations or abnormal changes in the composition and function of genes. But genetic errors...
TAGS: Basic Research, Discoveries, Schizophrenia
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