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J. John Mann, M.D. - Brain and behavior research expert on depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide
J. John Mann, M.D.
April 18, 2013

Roughly 36,000 Americans kill themselves every year. Is it possible to develop better ways to predict and avert suicide? J. John Mann, M.D., believes the answer is “yes.”  

Dr. Mann is a pioneer in the study of...

Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., expert on schizophrenia
Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.
April 18, 2013

Interview With A Researcher: Chief of Child Psychiatry at the NIMH Shares Insight

Learning how genes predispose, even if they don’t determine

Over the last decade of her distinguished career in studying...

Jordan W. Smoller, M.D., Sc.D. expert in mental health research
Jordan W. Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.
April 18, 2013

The Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), a consortium of geneticists and neuroscientists, has released the results of a worldwide, six-year-long collaboration in the first genome-wide search...

David Shaffer, M.D.
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...

Robert Malenka, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Stanford School of Medicine, an expert on autism
Robert Malenka, M.D., Ph.D.
April 18, 2013

Mutations of the neuroligin-3 gene have been found in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. In new research conducted in part at the laboratory of Robert Malenka, M.D., Ph.D., Brain & Behavior Research Foundation...

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