Basic Research

Robert Malenka, M.D, Ph.D., Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and expert in Depression
Robert Malenka, M.D, Ph.D.
July 13, 2012

A recently published study led by Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member Robert Malenka, M.D, Ph.D. identifies a new molecular mechanism responsible for anhedonia, or the inability to...

Marco P. Boks, M.D., Ph.D., Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, 2009 NARSAD Young Investigator  Grantee, expert on Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia and epigenetics
Marco P. Boks, M.D., Ph.D.
July 03, 2012

Marco P. Boks, M.D., Ph.D., Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, 2009 NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee: "Methylation as an Epigenetic Cause of Schizophrenia"

My idea is not entirely new and not entirely...

Zhen Yan, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the State University of New York at Buffal,o Stress Expert
Zhen Yan, Ph.D.
June 29, 2012

NARSAD Young and Independent Investigator Grantee Zhen Yan, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the State University of New York at Buffalo, discovered that repeated stress dampens the activity of...

Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D., Professor Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology Yale School of Medicine
Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D.
June 27, 2012

Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, is the principal author of a new study that has found that the gene neuritin, which is responsible for keeping healthy neuron connections...

Michael Posner, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor at the Weill Medical College in New York
Michael Posner, Ph.D.
June 14, 2012

Scientific Council Member Michael Posner led a study that demonstrates that just one month of meditation training has positive effects on mental health.  Researchers believe that this finding may lead to new treatments...

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