NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, Ron Davis, Ph.D., is the lead author of a new study that identified a mechanism essential for both forming memories and eliminating them after memories have formed. Dr. Davis is chairman of the Scripps Research Department of Neuroscience.
The largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted is helping researchers understand why some teenagers start smoking or experimenting with drugs and others don’t. NARSAD grantee Mark Bellgrove, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Psychology at ...
Three independent research teams recently reported that for the first time, specific gene mutations known as 'De novo mutations' are risk factors for autism.
In findings recently published in Cell, 2010 NARSAD Independent Investigator Grantee, Guo-li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, demonstrate that people are nearly one and...
In 2008, Scientific Council Members Mary-Claire King, Ph.D. from the University of Washington—widely known for her discovery of a mutation in a gene she named BRCA1 that led to powerful breast cancer diagnostics—and Judith Rapoport, M.D. of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) led research teams discovering rare genetic mutations found in high volumes in people with...
