A key environmental factor contributing to and highly predictive of psychiatric illness is stress. Children with a history of trauma or maltreatment are at enormous lifetime risk for anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicide,...
Discoveries
Joan Kaufman, Ph.D.
February 01, 2011
Xiangzhong Zheng, PhD
February 01, 2011
The work of a NARSAD Young Investigator could help cast a new light on how a timing system in our body responsive to the day/night cycle generated by the rotation of the Earth is implicated in seasonal depression. Part of...
TAGS: Basic Research, Discoveries, Depression
Dr. Jonathan Javitch
February 01, 2011
Expressed widely throughout the brain, dopamine is a message-carrying molecule called a neurotransmitter, which is involved in a number of regulatory processes related to movement and aspects of cognition such as...
TAGS: Basic Research, Discoveries, Schizophrenia
Randy Blakely, Ph.D.
February 01, 2011
With the help of an initial NARSAD Distinguished Investigator grant, Randy Blakely, Ph.D., and a team of researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio have...
Young Investigators
January 31, 2011
Earlier this month 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...
TAGS: Blog, Brain Matters, Discoveries
Pages
