A new study published online reveals that people with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have weaker connections in the brain that effect the amygdala, a pair of small organs within the medial temporal lobes of the brain...
Basic Research
The New York Times
August 23, 2012
Work that was done as early as the 1990s has found new reinforcement with a new study published online in the journal Nature on August 22, 2012. In 2001, four-time NARSAD Grantee, Dolores Malaspina, M.D., M.P.H. published...
Gerome Breen, Ph.D.
August 22, 2012
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...
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...
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