It was believed for a long time that the human brain didn’t change much once mature. That belief has been turned on its head over the course of the past fifteen years. Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD...
Basic Research
Melissa R. Warden, Ph.D.
June 10, 2013
A team of neuroscientists, including NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee Melissa R. Warden, Ph.D., of Stanford University, devised new analytical methods to decode neuronal interactions in complex cognitive tasks. Their...
Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D.
June 06, 2013
Substantial evidence suggests that patients with schizophrenia have, on average, smaller volumes in several brain areas such as the frontal lobes, and that these changes progress with time. A new neuroimaging study by...
Olivier J. Manzoni, Ph.D.
June 04, 2013
Researchers commonly use fear extinction as the main line of treatment for anxiety disorders. Extinction therapy aims to train the patient to distinguish non-threatening cues from threatening ones and to disassociate the...
TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Discoveries, Autism, Anxiety
Florin Dolcos, Ph.D.
May 31, 2013
Do you know someone who tends to focus on the negative and bottle up emotions? A new study by NARSAD Grantee Florin Dolcos, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), reveals that the...
TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Discoveries, Anxiety
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