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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: Alzheimer’s

Image of the wine and cheese party at the 89th CSHL Symposium

A CSHL Symposium for the ages

6/5/2025

We recap the 89^th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology, which, for the first time, focused on aging and senescence. Read the story »

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‘The bridge between hope and healing’

6/4/2025

The Cosmopolitan Club hosts an inspiring event featuring CSHL Professor Alea Mills and Dr. John Boockvar of Netflix’s Lenox Hill and Emergency NYC. Read the story »

Cocktails & Chromosomes: Hormones on my mind

4/9/2025

How do estrogen and testosterone influence mood, behavior, and health? CSHL neuroscientist Jessica Tollkuhn breaks it down for viewers young and old. Watch the video »

Lucas Cheadle awarded $750K MIND Prize

4/1/2025

Support from the Pershing Square Foundation empowers the CSHL neuroscientist to take a bold, new view of Alzheimer’s disease. Read the story »

At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: Neuroscience

10/15/2024

What do you think? How do you know? And who are you anyway? We probe each of these questions with the help of Cold Spring Harbor’s neuroscientists. Listen to the podcast »

image of oligodendrocyte precursor cells

One Experiment: The brain’s landscapers

10/10/2024

The brain relies on cells called OPCs to refine neural connections. CSHL’s Lucas Cheadle can now look at these synapse pruners in a whole new light. Read the story »

This protein does “The Twist”

7/31/2024

CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa has figured out how the NMDAR performs a key step in the brain’s cognitive dance. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 2: Molecular puppetry

4/9/2024

CSHL neuroscientist Hiro Furukawa shows us a part of the brain that actually works like a puppet master. What could this mean for mental health? Listen to the podcast »

Rendering of the Hillside Expansion project

Foundations for the Future: Blueprint for tomorrow

11/13/2023

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Advancement team provides an overview of the institution’s newly launched seven-acre expansion project. Read the story »

Cryo-electron microscopy image of a human CALHM1 channel

This eight-armed octopus-like pore perceives taste

7/14/2023

CSHL captures never-before-seen images of the human CALHM1 channel, a mysterious cellular passageway that may be connected to Alzheimer’s disease. Read the story »

A new look at brain function and psychiatric disorders

11/2/2022

CSHL scientists’ new 3D models of NMDA brain receptor variants could lead to better treatments for schizophrenia, stroke, depression, and Alzheimer’s. Read the story »

Mapping brain disorder therapeutics at work

7/29/2022

Dive into the 3D atomic structure of the NMDA receptor, important in several brain disorders, and see how it interacts with drugs that inhibit it. Watch the video »

Mapping out new routes to treat brain disorders

6/10/2022

CSHL scientists explore new angles to improve brain disorder therapies with 3D maps of the NMDA receptor, a key player in Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Read the story »

Picky proteins: A new angle for brain disorder therapeutics

5/20/2022

Researchers have designed an antibody that may help treat brain disorders. See how it prevents neurons from malfunctioning. Watch the video »

Brain receptor pulls open electrical gate like a puppet master

6/30/2020

When stimulated by a neurotransmitter or drug, the NMDA receptor pulls open an ion gate that allows ions to flow. Read the story »

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