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May 22
May 22 Cortical Imaging Study Offers Clues to Causes of OCD

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

MRI scans from thousands of individuals link obsessive compulsive disorder to structural abnormalities in brain’s cortex.

Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Apr 30
Apr 30 Therapeutic RNA Corrects Splicing Defect that Causes Familial Dysautonomia

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Synthetic RNA can correct an error in genetic processing that leads to a rare inherited neurodegenerative disorder.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Apr 12
Apr 12 The Roots of Autism

Jennifer Michalowski
Feature, BrainFacts

Tracing autism’s symptoms back to problems in the developing brain could lead to better diagnoses and treatments.

Full story at BrainFacts

Apr 11
Apr 11 The Neural Circuitry of Parental Behavior

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

More than twenty parts of the brain coordinate motivational, behavioral, and hormonal changes involved in nurturing young animals.

Full story at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Mar 15
Mar 15 Western Diet Depletes Artery-Protecting Immune Cells

Jennifer Michalowski
News, La Jolla Institute for Immunology

High levels of fats and cholesterol reprogram heart-protective immune cells into cells that can exacerbate atherosclerosis by promoting inflammation.

Full story at La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Mar 15
Mar 15 New Evidence of Early Human Innovation Pushes Back Evolutionary Timeline

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Artifacts from about 320,000 years ago indicate that early humans had begun replacing technologies and ways of life that had been in place for hundreds of thousands of years.

Full story at Smithsonian

Feb 1
Feb 1 Early Independence

Jennifer Michalowski
Feature, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Rather than pursuing traditional post-docs, some scientists start their own labs soon after completing graduate school.

Full story at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus

Nov 15
Nov 15 Plaques, Proteins, and the Causes of Alzheimer's Disease

Jennifer Michalowski
Feature, BrainFacts

Preserving healthy synapses could prevent or slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.  

Full story at BrainFacts

Oct 16
Oct 16 Data vs. Disease

Jennifer Michalowski
Feature, Case Western Reserve University

Betting on big data to defeat Alzheimer’s disease.

Full story in Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Medicus magazine

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