Three-time NARSAD Grantee talks about his groundbreaking work on depression since the 1980s
When did your research career begin, and what made you pursue research on depression in particular?
My...
Next Generation Therapies
Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D.
December 17, 2012
Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D.
December 17, 2012
Patients with depression tend to smoke a lot, which led to the idea that nicotine may ease depressive symptoms. Research has shown how the process works. Nicotine binds to particular receptor molecules on the surface of...
Christine I. Hooker, Ph.D.
December 17, 2012
Schizophrenia-associated deficits in cognition are not substantially improved by medication, but have been shown to improve with remedial cognitive training. The mechanisms that support this improvement have been largely...
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
December 12, 2012
A team of neuroscientists led by NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee and Scientific Council Member Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., has demonstrated for the first time how dopamine neurons are linked to depression. The team at...
Carmine M. Pariante, M.D., Ph.D.
December 11, 2012
Carmine M. Pariante, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Biological Psychiatry at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, is one of the authors of a new study that identifies the signaling pathway in the brain that, when...
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