NARSAD Grantee Gerome Breen, Ph.D. and research team at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London have found genetic variants involved in several neural signaling pathways in the brain that may cause bipolar...
Basic Research
Gerome Breen, Ph.D.
August 22, 2012
Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D.
August 15, 2012
Certain brain regions in people with major depression are smaller and less dense than those of their healthy counterparts. Why this occurs has been a major focus of research in laboratories around the world. A team of...
TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Discoveries, Depression
Peter C. Whybrow, M.D.
July 26, 2012
In an article that was the cover story of the July 16 issue of Newsweek, NARSAD Grantee Peter C. Whybrow, M.D., Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los...
Mikhail Pletnikov, M.D., Ph.D.
July 20, 2012
In a new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that two previously established biological risk factors for schizophrenia have a cause-and-effect relationship....
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...
TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, Discoveries, Depression
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