In January NARSAD announced grant awards to 214 new Young Investigators. Totaling $12.6 million, these grants are part of the continued investment NARSAD makes in brilliant researchers with the most promising ideas to...
Discoveries
Mediation May Change the Brain
February 04, 2011
NARSAD-Funded Researcher Pinpoints Gene Mutation Linked To Schizophrenia that Should Significantly Improve Treatment
NARSAD Independent Investigator Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., led the international team of researchers...
TAGS: Blog, Brain Matters, Discoveries, Schizophrenia
W. Ian Lipkin, M.D.
February 01, 2011
In 1991, NARSAD awarded a Young Investigator grant to W. Ian Lipkin, M.D., then at the University of California, Irvine, for a study of the Borna disease virus (BDV). His interest came from a surprising report of BDV...
Jonathan Javitch, M.D., Ph.D.
February 01, 2011
NARSAD Scientific Council member Jonathan Javitch, M.D., Ph.D., of Columbia University, is part of a team that recently determined the structure of one of the five dopamine receptors in the human brain — the culmination...
TAGS: Basic Research, Discoveries, Schizophrenia, Depression
John H. Krystal, M.D.
February 01, 2011
Gifted researcher advances understanding of the brain’s biology that leads to breakthroughs in treatment of anxiety and other disorders
“I think we have arrived at a tipping point in the maturation of psychiatry,”...
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