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- Using Computer Models of the Neural Mechanisms of Visual Processing to Non-Invasively Modulate Brain States
- Learning from Error: Defining how Cerebellar Circuits Drive Adaptation in a Changing World
- All Optically Probing the Neural Codes of Perception in the Primate Brain
- Human-specific Alternative Splicing, Brain<br>Development, and Ciliopathies
- Virus-like Intercellular Signaling Underlying Autoimmune Neurological Disorders
- Molecular Mechanisms of Osmolality Sensing in the Mammalian Brain
- The Role of Ribosomes in Synaptic Circuit Formation and Socio-Communicative Deficits
- To spike or not to spike? Mapping dendritic computations in vivo.
- Homeostatic Maintenance of Neocortical Excitation-inhibition Balance by Ciliary Neuropeptidergic Signaling
- Mechanisms of Affective States and Drug Discovery at the Intersection of Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mechanisms Underlying Synaptic Proteostasis
- A Role for Dopamine During Rest and Sleep in Memory Consolidation
- Probing Sensation and Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorder Models
- Autoantibody Discovery in Neuropsychiatric Disease
- Mechanistic dissection of three-dimensional regulatory architecture in neurodevelopmental disorders
- Do dopamine signals promote flexible behavior by recruiting synchronized brain rhythms?
- Imaging dynamics of endogenous protein interactions in single dendritic spines
- Interrogating Experience-Induced Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics in Interneurons
- Retrospective Neurogenomics in the Mouse
- Epigenetic Mechanisms Linking Cerebral Cortical Cell Types to Gene Expression and Connectivity
- Single Mitochondrion Analysis and Engineering for Human Neurological Disease
- Mapping and Restoring Synaptic Connectivity in Brain Disorders
- Dissecting microglial function in neuroinflammation by mapping nitric oxide in real time in the living brain
- Specificity and defects of neuronal circuitry in health and disease: Growth cone proteomes and RNA
- Unravel the Neuronal Pathways Underlying Anesthesia-Induced Loss of Consciousness
- Synaptome of a Memory
- Disruption of the Shank3 gene in a primate model for studying ASD
- Motor neuron circuits, movement
- BOINCing PTEN-associated neural circuit pathology
- Synthetic nanoparticles for gene editing in the brain in utero
- BL-OG: Selective, minimally invasive and activity dependent self-regulation of thalamic bursting
- Neuron Replacement: Improved Cognitive Function
- Targeted Therapy with Nanodevices
- Cortical Function & Behavior
- Parkinson’s disease
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Grants
- In Vivo and Ex Vivo Dissection of Midbrain Neuron Activity During Exercise
- Deciphering the Neuropeptide Circuitry of Emotional Arousal in Narcolepsy
- Attention Mechanisms Contributing to Auditory Spatial Processing.
- Elucidating the Fates and Functions of Lactate in the Brain
- Deciphering the Neural Circuitry of Nausea
- Synapses in the Periphery: Uncovering Molecular Connections Between Nerves and Organs
- Neuronal Vulnerability to Heterochromatin Dysregulation in Development
- Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Human Milk Oligosaccharides
- Elucidating Synapse Dysfunction Using In Vivo Single-Cell CRISPR/Cas9 Manipulations
- Impact of Locus Coeruleus Dynamics on Gustatory Cortex Function
- Roles of Glia in Neural Aging
- Cerebellin 2 Dysregulation Mediates Synaptic Deficiency in Down Syndrome
- Understanding the Role of Epigenetic Regulation During Human Neural Lineage Commitment
- Investigating a Skin-brand Neuronal Pathway for Rewarding Social Touch
- Unique Vulnerability of Developing Human Cerebral Cortex to Loss of Centrosomal Protein
- Dynamic Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity During Spatial Exploration
- Circadian Regulation of Oligodendroglial Senescence and Metabolomics in Aging
- Uncovering a Novel Role for Primary Cilia in Eph/Ephrin Signaling in Neurons
- Elucidating the Role of Paradoxical GABA Signaling in Parkinson’s Disease
- Unveiling the Hidden Architectures of the Brain ECM
- Mu-opioid Receptor Regulation by Golgi Satellites in Opioid Use Disorder
- Fat to Brain Communication: Inter-organ Transport of Mitochondrial Molecules
- The Role of 4D Mitochondrial Morphology in Impaired Neurogenesis
- Investigating Habitual Behavior and Cholinergic Modulation of Dopamine Release in Tourette Disorder
- Neural Dynamics of Taste and Hunger Integration in the Mammalian Brainstem
- The Role of Microglial Lysosomes in Selective Neuronal Vulnerability
- How the Nervous System Constructs Internal Models of the External World
- When Neural Circuits Meet Molecular Circuits: Quantitative Genetic Manipulation with Single-cell Consistency
- Conducting the Orchestra of Movement—Functional Role of Striatal Astrocytes in Health and Disease
- Rethinking Remyelination: The Role of Mature Oligodendrocytes in Remyelination
- Decoding Speech from Electrocorticography
- A Zebrafish Model to Study Microglial-Extracellular Matrix Dynamics During Synapse Development
- Epistasis Screening for Neuronal Mechanisms of Secretory Protein Trafficking
- Cortical Processing of Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Signals
- Targeting Intrinsic versus Synaptic Mechanisms in the Epileptic Brain
- Understanding Memory Association Through Modulation of Hippocampal-cortical Communication
- Astrocyte Contributions to Cortical Synaptic Plasticity
- Dopaminergic Contributions to Dexterous Skill in Cortex and Striatum
- A Circuit Mechanism for the Development of Cortico-cortical Connectivity
- Defining the Role of Early Life Experience in mPFC Circuit Assembly
- The Neural Basis of Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression
- A New Paradigm for the Neuroscience of Navigation
- Role of Inhibitory Synapses in Shaping Excitatory Circuits
- Neural Mechanisms of Inferential Learning
- Linking Cell Type to Disease: Mapping Gene Expression and Neural Activity in Pathological Reward Processing
- Mechanisms of Myelin Degeneration and Clearance in the Live Brain
- An Implanted Brain-computer Interface for ALS Patients
- A Modular System for Temporal and Cell-type Specific Manipulation of Neural Circuits
- Active dendritic processing of sensory inputs in vivo
- Excitatory and inhibitory synapse communication in synaptic plasticity
- A New Class of Autism-associated GABA Neurons in Memory Precision
- Revealing how value is translated into action with simultaneous single neuron and multi-area resolution
- Visualizing chemosensory connectivity: getting a “GRASP” on taste synapses in the tongue and gut
- Monitoring Communication in Neuronal Networks in Real Time and at Single Cell Resolution
- Investigating the Role of Negative Valence in the Temporal Dynamics of Memory-Linking
- Elucidating the Role for 3D Genome Topology Disruption in Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion Disorders
- Dissecting the Organization and Function of Social Behavioral Circuits in the Amygdala
- Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Behavior-Dependent Representation for Space and Time
- Aberrant Synaptic Organization in Tremor Disorders
- A Novel Whole-brain Method for In Vivo Imaging of Progressive Neurodegeneration
- Dissecting Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms for Communication Across the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
- Identifying the Molecular Substrates of OCD Using Human Post-mortem Brain and Optogenetics in Mice
- Charting New Territory: The Cerebello-amygdala Circuit and its Role in Emotion Regulation
- Neural Circuit Mechanisms in the Early Stage of Alzheimer's Disease
- Traumatic Synaptic Injury and its Impact on AD
- Beyond Neurotransmission: Exploring Roles for Synaptic Dopaminylation in Drug-induced Plasticity
- Identifying Genetic Influences on Chromatin Accessibility During Human Cortical Development
- Treating Blindness by Manipulating Intraretinal Melanopsin Signaling
- Neural Codes for Perception and Production of Learned Acoustic Elements in the Mammalian Brain
- Next Generation Magnetogenetic Tools for Manipulating Neural Activity
- In vivo CRISPR Screening for Modifiers of Mutant Huntingtin Levels
- Somatosensory information processing through spinal commissural neurons
- Brain somatic mutations at ASD-associated genetic loci
- Lighting up Astrocytes: Neuromodulator Activation in the Cerebral Cortex
- Decoding the Molecular Regulators of Synaptic Integrity
- Chemogenetic dissection of sex-specific fear circuits
- How does loss of SHANK3 in human neurons affect neuronal connectivity in the brain?
- Establishing a stem cell-based functional characterization of NRXN1-mutations from psychosis patients
- Develop the sonogenetic method to manipulate the activity of mammalian neurons in vivo
- Optoglial modulation of inhibition and seizure susceptibility
- Ultrafast optical recording of spiking activity in a zebrafish neural circuit
- Determining the Cell-autonomous Role of GABAergic Inhibition in Visual Processing
- Endoplasmic reticulum structure and function in neuronal maintenance
- Nanoscale Optical Neuronal Recording using Nontoxic Quantum Probes
- Therapeutic epigenetic reprogramming of brain cancer stem cells using microRNAs
- Optogenetic Dissection of Brain Circuits Causing Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia
- Microplatform for minimally-invasive spatio-temporal modulation of immune dynamics in the brain
- Neuropathology and Experimental Therapy of Creatine Transporter (CrT) Deficiency
- Controlling synaptic function with light
- Identifying input-specific mechanisms underlying drug-evoked plasticity in the dopamine system
- Ion Channel Trafficking at the Axon Initial Segment and Neural Excitability
- Mechanisms underlying the brain disorder in Down syndrome
- Modeling neurodevelopmental disorders with genetically defined human neurons
- Structural and Functional Studies of Adhesion GPCRs in the Central Nervous System
- Global analysis of transcriptome diversity at the single-cell level in human neurons
- Imaging, learning and memory, neuronal plasticity
- Regulation of neurotransmitter release and synaptic vesicle recycling by protein ubiquitination
- A Novel Approach to Regulate Glutamate Signaling in Neuropsychiatric Disease
- Gel-like Nano-devices for Non-invasive, Electrical and Chemical Recording of Neural Activities
- Optical Integrators for Monitoring Activity in Circuits and Cells
- The nano-meter scale organization and function of phosphoinositide signaling at central synapses
- The Molecular and Neural Basis of Itch Sensation
- In vivo optogenetics to distinguish learning from performance effects of dopamine on fine motor skills
- High-density neural recording of dysfunctional memories in animal models of mental disease
- Functional characterization of genes associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder using mouse models
- Activation of fibrotic scar forming cells following traumatic brain injury
- Schizophrenia by Axel Nimmerjahn
- Alzheimer’s disease by Yongli Zhang
- Autism
- Neural Plasticity, neurodevelopment
- Autism, Intellectual Disability
- Itch perception
- Alzheimer’s disease, autism, schizophrenia
- Dementia
- Autism, schizophrenia
- Huntington’s disease, OCD, Parkinson’s disease
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Autism, epilepsy & schizophrenia
- Parkinson’s Disease by Yong-Chao Ma
- Hormonal Effects on Neurons by Raphael Pinaud
- Neural Stem Cells by Murali Prakriya
- Processing Emotion – Depression and Drug Addiction by Mitchell Roitman
- Visual Processing by Leslie Osborne
- Schizophrenia by Kuei Tseng
- Galectins – How They Alter Brain Function by Geoffrey Swanson, 2012
- Learning and Memory by David Freedman, 2012
- Depression by Dane Chetkovich
- Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by Agnella Matic
- Schizophrenia by Kuei Tseng, 2012
- Parkinson’s Disease by Yong-Chao Ma, 2012
- Learning and Memory by David Freedman
- Galectins – How They Alter Brain Function by Geoffrey Swanson
- Visual Processing
- Neural Stem Cells
- Hormonal Effects on Neurons
- Depression
- Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
- Processing Emotion - Depression and Drug Addiction
- Periventricular Heterotopia (PH) by Yuanyi Feng
- Trace Amine-Associated Receptors by Thomas Bozza
- Sleep Disorders and Neurodegenerative Diseases by Ravi Allada
- Autism Spectrum Disorder by Peter Penzes
- Adult Brain Neurogenesis by Orly Lazarov, 2011
- Brain Circuits Modulating Reward and Addiction by Michela Marinelli
- Odor Coding in the Brain by Jay Gottfried, 2011
- Adolescent Alcohol Consumption – Its Effect on Risk-Preference
- Genetic Prion Disease by James Mastrianni
- Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons by Jack Waters
- Sensory and Motor Development by Indira Raman
- ALS: Lou Gehrig’s Disease by Gordon Shepherd
- Rett Syndrome by Gianmaria Maccaferri
- Huntington’s Disease by Gerardo Morfini
- Galectins – How They Alter Brain Function by Geoffrey Swanson, 2011
- Autism Spectrum Disorder by Christian Hansel, 2011
- Neuron Development by Anjen Chenn
- Ischemic Stroke by Agnieszka Ardelt
- Autism Spectrum Disorder by Christian Hansel
- Sleep Disorders and Neurodegenerative Diseases by Ravi Allada, 2011
- Odor Coding in the Brain by Jay Gottfried
- Adult Brain Neurogenesis by Orly Lazarov
- Trace Amine-Associated Receptors
- Sensory and Motor Development
- Rett Syndrome
- Periventricular Heterotopia (PH)
- Neuron Development
- Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons
- Ischemic Stroke
- Genetic Prion Disease
- Galectins - How They Alter Brain Function
- Brain Circuits Modulating Reward and Addiction
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- ALS: Lou Gehrig's Disease
- Huntington's Disease
- Adolescent Alcohol Consumption - It's Effect on Risk-Preference
- Parkinson’s Disease by Rajeshwar Awatramani, Ph.D., 2010
- Understanding Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 – A Devastating Progressive, Degenerative Disease by Puneet Opal
- Adult Brain Neurogenesis by Orly Lazarov, 2010
- Synaptic Vesicle Biogenesis – Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and Down Syndrome
- Imaging: New MRI Method to Assess Neural Activity in Real Time by Lei Wang
- Odor Coding in the Brain by Jay Gottfried, 2010
- Alzheimer’s Disease by Jaime Grutzendler
- Brain Development: Understanding Neuron Migration by Jaime García-Añoveros
- Cortex Plasticity: How the Brain Interprets Stimuli by Jack Waters
- Gene Manipulation: Possible Links to Schizophrenia and Autism by Elizabeth Grove
- Learning, Memory and Recognition by David Freedman
- Epilepsy by Dane Chetkovich, 2010
- Parkinson’s Disease by Anthony West, 2010
- Addictive Behaviors – Brain Reward Mechanisms by Anis Contractor
- Parkinson’s Disease by Anthony West
- Parkinson’s Disease by Rajeshwar Awatramani, 2010
- Epilepsy by Dane Chetkovich
- Odor Coding in the Brain
- Learning, Memory and Recognition
- Imaging: New MRI Method to Assess Neural Activity in Real Time
- Gene Manipulation: Possible Links to Schizophrenia and Autism
- Cortex Plasticity: How the Brain Interprets Stimuli
- Brain Development: Understanding Neuron Migration
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Adult Brain Neurogenesis
- Addictive Behaviors - Brain Reward Mechanisms
- Understanding Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 - A Devastating Progressive, Degenerative Disease
- Odor Perception by Thomas Bozza
- Parkinson’s Disease by Rajeshwar Awatramani, 2009
- Spinocerebellar ataxia by Puneet Opal
- ALS
- ALS, stroke and spinal cord injury by Marc Slutzky
- Schizophrenia by Jill Morris, 2009
- Motor Map in the Superior Colliculus by Jianhua Cang
- Stress and Depression by Jeremy Amiel Rosenkranz
- Nervous System Development by Jaime Garcia-Anoveros
- Understanding Motor Networks by Gordon Shepherd
- Alzheimer’s and Epilepsy by Dean M. Hartley
- Epilepsy by Dane Chetkovich, 2009
- Learning and Memory by Christian Hansel
- Harsh Parenting and Mental Disorders
- Mental Retardation by Anis Contractor
- Schizophrenia by Jill Morris
- Parkinson’s Disease by Rajeshwar Awatramani
- Understanding Motor Networks
- Stress and Depression
- Spinocerebellar ataxia
- Odor Perception
- Nervous System Development
- Motor Map in the Superior Colliculus
- Mental Retardation
- Learning and Memory
- Epilepsy
- ALS, stroke and spinal cord injury
- Alzheimer's and Epilepsy
- Vision by David Freedman
- Aging Effects on Visual Memory Resolution
- Neuromuscular Junction
- Motor Cortex
- Early Visual System
- Devic’s disease by Adil Javed
- Brain Function
- Sensory and Motor Cortex
- Nicotine Addiction
- Prion Disease by James A. Mastrianni
- Cancer-Induced Depression
- HNPP
- Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
- GABAergic Neurons
- Mental Retardation by Nancy B. Schwartz
- Motor Neuron Function
- Alzheimer’s disease by Sangram Sisodia, 2008
- Aggressive Behavior
- Autism by Robert K. Ho
- Scene-statistics Adaptation
- Genetic Influences on Behavior by Kristen Jacobson
- Devic’s disease
- Selective Attention
- Sensory Information Processing
- Epilepsy by Kathleen Millen
- Brain Tumor
- Molecular mechanisms of neocortical cell type specification
- Movement Control
- Cancer Treatment
- Comprehending the Organization and Function of the Nervous System by Ilya Ruvinsky
- Neural control of respiration
- Alzheimer’s disease by Sangram Sisodia, 2011
- Alzheimer’s disease by Gopal Thinakaran
- Learning and Addiction
- Parkinson’s Disease by Qian Chen
- Battens Disease
- Sleep Disruption
- Cerebral Salt Wasting
- Arousal and Aggression
- Brain Tumors by Maciej S. Lesniak
- Gene Expression
- Brain Signaling
- Brain Development and Behavior
- Social Cognition
- Synaptic Efficacy
- Motor Circuits
- Genetics
- Depression by Ya-Ping Tang
- Alzheimer’s
- Nicotine Addiction by Paul Vezina
- Cortical Development
- Genetics by Abraham A. Palmer
- Schizophrenia
- Parkinson’s Disease by Xiaoxi Zhuang
- Alzheimer’s disease by Orly Lazarov
- Brain Tumors by Maciej Lesniak
- Odor Perception by Leslie M. Kay
- Motor Neurons
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Balance
- Prion Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Vision
- Bipolar Disorder
- Brain Tumors
- Anesthetics and Brain Function
- Alcohol-Induced desire to smoke
- Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neuronal Migration and Corticogenesis
- Identification of Cortical Language Areas from EcoG Recordings Without Electrical Stimulation of the Brain
- 2004 Seed Grants Archive
- 2003 Seed Grants Archive
- 2002 Seed Grants Archive
- 2001 Seed Grants Archive
- 2000 Seed Grants Archive
- 1999 Seed Grants Archive
- 1998 Seed Grants Archive
- 1997 Seed Grants Archive
- 1996 Seed Grants Archive
- 1995 Seed Grants Archive
- 1994 Seed Grants Archive
- 1993 Seed Grants Archive
Stories
- The Vandermel Family's Story
- Matt Rahn's Story
- The Anderson Family’s Story
- My Passion for the Foundation
- Finding Comfort in the Search for Cures
- On Top of Stealing Memories, Dementia Takes a Person’s Dignity: Cindy Macfarland's Story
- BRF Chosen by Daniele Laub To Receive Half the Proceeds of Fundraising Concert
- A Tragic Personal Loss Drives a Commitment To Increase Understanding of Mental Diseases
- Diana Healy's Story
- Doug and Pam Walter's Story
- Emily Golin Understands the Importance of Philanthropy Among the Next Generation
- Biker Boi Raises Over $6,000 for BRF
- My Son’s Name Was Fred
- Barbara and Marc Posner's Story
- Estate Gift: Our Way to Keep Giving
- From Our Young Leadership Board
- Foundation Forward: Rob Johnson's Story
- The Story of Lisa
Successes
- BRF Accelerates a Lab and Career
- Sleep Disorders and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- High Impact
- From the Lab to the Patient
- Answers at the Gut Microbiome-Brain Interface
- A New Path To Beat Addiction
- The Intersection of Parkinson’s Disease and Addiction
- The intersection of form and function: Disruptions in DNA’s 3D-structure linked to neurodevelopmental brain disorders.
- BRF’s grant gave Dr. Ahmari the opportunity to expand her research and propel her career.
- The BRF Seed Grant was an essential catalyst for my research.
- BRF’s support of Dr. Edwin Cook’s research has impacted the careers and discoveries of scientists world-wide.
- Dr. Krishnan’s lab is working to create a way to map nitric oxide in a living brain.
- Foundation Forward
- BRF-funded research reveals serious implications regarding teens and marijuana
- New Antidepressant Target Discovered by Brain Research Foundation Grantee
- For more than 40 years dopamine replacement therapy has improved motor function for people with Parkinson’s disease, but how or why is still a mystery. If more were known, therapy could perhaps be fine-tuned to give people living with Parkinson’s more control over their movements and a better quality of life.
- Beata Chertok, Ph.D., imagined she could find a way to treat brain tumors without surgery.
- It’s heartbreaking to see people we care for struggle with dementia and not be able to help them. With support from the BRF, Aimee W. Kao, M.D., Ph.D., is on the path to new treatment options.
- Current treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can leave behind as many people as they help. With support from a BRF seed grant, Stephanie C. Dulawa, Ph.D., hopes to change that.
- Why do so many of us struggle with addiction or depression, or both? A BRF grant helped Mitchell Roitman, Ph.D., look for answers.
- Could a child with epilepsy be given a pill containing an all-but invisible therapeutic device programmed to travel to specific cells in his brain and, once there, be “pinged” into action to repair the damaged cells? Quite possibly, says Brian Litt, M.D.
- Brain Research Foundation Awards Grant to Study Concussive Events Among Grade School Children
- 2011 BRF Seed Grant Leads to $3 Million in NIH Funding
- BRF Funding Advances Science and Research Careers
- Her investigations into neurorepair will support Dr. Ardelt’s clinical work with stroke patients and also have the potential to advance the treatment of other brain disorders.
- Insight from Dr. Penzes’ research work to help scientists understand how connections in brain cells are disrupted in autism, and may uncover a viable therapeutic target that has real potential as an orally administered drug.
- Dr. Lazarov’s investigation of neurogenesis in adult stem cells has led to greater understanding of Alzheimer’s disease.
- BRF-funded seed grant research has led Dr. Chetkovich to exponential advancements not just in his study of epilepsy but other researchers’ understanding of both epilepsy and mood disorders as well.
- Protein metabolism plays a key regulatory role in the nervous system, in both health and disease. Learning and memory functions in particular require ongoing synthesis of new proteins. With a grant from Brain Research Foundation, researchers at Columbia University learned more about this crucial and mysterious process.
- A 2000 Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Greengard is developing innovative technology that will lead to better understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease.
- Dr. Castellanos is elucidating the neuroscience of ADHD and its relationship to substance abuse through genetic studies and sophisticated brain imaging.
- Autism Spectrum Disorders Update: New Study Shows Prevalence Much Greater Than Suspected
- Seed Grants: Growing Discovery
- Chronic stress causes a dysregulation of emotional behaviors, and is a potent triggering factor in depression and other psychiatric illnesses.
- According to the World Health Organization, as many as 450 million people worldwide suffer from a mental or behavioral disorder. Chunyu Liu, Ph.D., Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, is trying to make a difference in the lives of so many by determining the link between genetic factors, environmental factors and neuropsychiatric diseases. Dr. Liu was awarded a BRF Seed Grant in 2008. To date, the data from this grant has generated nine research articles in journals such as American Journal of Human Genetics, Behavior Genetics and Molecular Psychiatry.
- In 1984, Benjamin B. Lahey, Ph.D., Health Studies at the University of Chicago, published a paper in which he hypothesized that mothers who abuse their children may have a lower threshold for child misbehavior and may react more punitively to it.
- Schizophrenia is an inherited disorder, in that, if a family member is affected by schizophrenia, the other members have an increased risk of developing the disease as well.
- Our Seed Grants Are The First Step
- Identifying “silent seizures” in Alzheimer’s patients and seeking novel ways to use anti-seizure medications.
- Dane M. Chetkovich, M.D., Ph.D., Neurology at Northwestern University, is working on a gene therapy treatment for epilepsy that may one day help patients who are otherwise resistant to medical and surgical therapy.
- Brain Hormones in Schizophrenia
- Understanding Nicotine Addiction
- Manipulate the Immune System to Destroy Brain Tumors
- Genetic Influences on Behavior
- Comprehending the Organization and Function of the Nervous System
- Sleep Disruption May Impair Recovery from Clinical Illness
- Funding for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Physiology of Motion Perception
- Identifying the Genetic Origin of Schizophrenia
- A New Pre-Surgical Approach for Epilepsy Patients
- Applying Genetic Therapy to Brain Tumors
- Studying Pain on the Molecular Level
- How Does Early Childhood Trauma Affect Adult Brains?
- Studying Rodent Brains Could Help Detect Alzheimer’s
- One Step Closer to Understanding Autism
- Deciphering the Brain
Members
- Karen Mabie
- James A. Byrd, Jr. CTFA.
- Craig D. Blackstone, M.D., Ph.D.
- Tammy Kielian, Ph.D.
- Gordon M. G. Shepherd, M.D., Ph.D.
- Nenad Sestan, M.D., Ph.D.
- Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.
- Daniel A. Peterson, Ph.D.
- Yamuna Krishnan, Ph.D.
- Monica J. Carson, Ph.D.
- Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D.
- Scott T. Brady, Ph.D.
- Carrie Walters
- Ben Usem
- Alexandra Stewart
- Samantha Siegel
- Jon Shapiro
- Joe Shapiro
- Hilary Shapiro
- Diana Gore Robinson
- Jessica Mathias
- Samuel Marder
- Jordan Mandel
- Lauren Mandel
- Gloria Maciorowski
- Ali Lerner
- Myles Kaluzna
- Emily Jastromb
- Emily Golin
- Alyssa Friedberg
- Josh Feiger
- Doug Walter
- Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D
- Mary H. Smart
- Scott P. Serota
- Thomas A. Reynolds III
- David P. Purcell
- Daniel P. Shapiro
- David D. Olson
- Robert C. Malenka, M.D., Ph.D.
- John D. Mabie
- Bennett L. Leventhal, M.D.
- Richard M. Kohn
- Nathan Hansen
- Gail M. Elden
- Wilbur H. Gantz
- Marshall B. Front
- David H. Fishburn
- Gary Fencik
- Richard A. Chaifetz, Psy.D.
- Norman R. Bobins
- Peter B. Pond
- Sandra D. Jaggi
- Terre A. Constantine, Ph.D.