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29 results for "Psychiatric Disorders"

29 results for "Psychiatric Disorders"

How Zika infects the growing brain

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Zika virus (light blue) spreads through a three-dimensional model of a developing brain. Image courtesy of Max Salick and Nathaniel Kirkpatrick/Novartis The fast-spreading virus can take multiple routes into developing human nerve cells. By Hannah Robbins...

Genes, cells, and schizophrenia

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HSCRB-HSCI Seminar Series Guest speaker: Steve McCarroll, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School Director of Genetics Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Faculty host: Kevin Eggan

Study signals need to screen genes for stem cell transplants 

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In a cross-school collaboration, Harvard researchers Steve McCarroll (left) and Kevin Eggan (right) couple stem cell science with genetics and genomics to advance our understanding of human brain illnesses. Their latest project identified mutations that...

Fishing for new medications

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A robust new technique for screening drugs’ effects on zebrafish behavior is pointing HSCI scientists toward unexpected compounds and pathways that may govern sleep and wakefulness in humans. Among their more intriguing findings, described in the journal...

Brain organoids replicate key events in human brain development

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A single-cell analysis of 3D models of the human cerebral cortex suggests they can be used to study important brain processes that have been difficult to investigate Adapted from the Broad Institute By Allessandra DiCorato Organoids are carefully grown...

Threat sensors: the neurons that regulate fear response

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Harvard researchers identify the specific cells in the brain that process perceived threats Summary - HSCI researchers discovered a specific type of brain cell that modulates how mice respond to threats. - The findings help us understand how the...

Reinventing painkillers

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Clifford Woolf wants to reboot drug discovery to find a new way to treat pain: effectively and responsibly. Woolf’s goal is to stop the opioid crisis by rejecting the conventional approach to drug discovery and developing painkillers that do not harm...

Doing the neuron tango

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To an untrained observer, the electrical storm that takes place over the brain’s neural network seems a chaotic flurry of activity. But as neuroscientists understand it, the millions of neurons are actually engaged in a sort of tightly choreographed dance...

"This beautiful machine"

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By Lydialyle Gibson This article originally appeared in Harvard Magazine. Paola Arlotta is searching for the words to describe the clusters of cells, incubating quietly in a small room next to her laboratory, that have profoundly reshaped her life’s work...