New Technologies

NARSAD Grantee Hongjun Song, Ph.D., professor of neurology and director of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Institute for Cell Engineering
Hongjun Song, Ph.D.
August 09, 2012

In recent studies on mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering discovered how stem cells "eavesdrop" on communications between neurons in the brain. The findings are reported in the July 29 advance...

Zhiping Pang, Ph.D., Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Zhiping Pang, Ph.D.
August 07, 2012

Zhiping Pang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at UMDNJ-RWJMS-Child Health Institute of New Jersey won the 2012 Freedman Prize on July 27, 2012 for his development of a novel way to study...

Linda Carpenter, M.D., Chief of the Mood Disorders Program and the Neuromodulation Clinic at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, expert in depression
Linda Carpenter, M.D.
July 31, 2012

NARSAD Grantee Linda Carpenter, M.D., is the lead author of a newly published study that demonstrates for the first time that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses an external magnet to non-invasively...

Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., of Stanford University
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
July 24, 2012

Brain and behavior disorders are increasingly considered to be caused by altered functioning in the circuitry of the brain. Now known to be a vast and sophisticated network, the circuitry of the brain has proven elusive...

Helen Mayberg, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University
Helen Mayberg, M.D.
June 21, 2012

Scientific Council Members Eric R. Kandel, M.D., and Helen Mayberg, M.D., discuss how new technologies are moving the field of brain and behavior research closer to developing diagnostic tools for mental illness. Where...

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