Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been used successfully for 70 years to relieve symptoms of major depression. Remarkably, though, precise details about how it acts on the brain to produce this effect was unknown—until...
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Discoveries ›Next Generation Therapies
NARSAD Grantees Amit Anand, M.D. and Leslie A. Hulverhshorn, M.D., M.Sc., with Indiana University colleagues, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify which areas of the brain showed abnormal activity...
A pilot study led by Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Grantee Anne S. Bassett, M.D., FRCPC of the University of Toronto and colleagues, shows a positive response to genetic counseling for individuals with...
Bernard Le Foll, M.D., Ph.D., C.C.F.P. of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, used his 2009 NARSAD Independent Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to lead a...
Bryan L. Roth, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council and three-time NARSAD Grantee, is among leaders of a team that has successfully tested an automated process to...
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