The American University of Beirut Medical Center has begun providing treatment with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a first of its kind in Lebanon and the Middle East. With the help of a NARSAD Young Investigator...
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Mark S. George, M.D.
June 07, 2012
Helen Mayberg, M.D.
March 05, 2012
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) was invented in the late 1980s, however it was not used to treat depression-resistant patients until Scientific Council Member, Helen Mayberg, M.D. began testing it out in 2003. Her research...
Mark George, M.D.
February 24, 2012
With the help of a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, Scientific Council Member Mark S. George, M.D. developed Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a new kind of non-invasive brain stimulation as an alternative for...
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
January 27, 2012
Optogenetics, a new technology invented by Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., in 2005 with the help of a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, gives researchers extraordinary control over specific brain circuits — and with it, new...
Paola Dazzan, M.D.
January 19, 2012
Paola Dazzan, M.D., who leads early psychosis research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, has pursued the goal of applying neuroimaging to the study of psychosis with support from three NARSAD Grants....
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