CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: schizophrenia

Interview with a neuroscientist

5/31/2019

CSHL Professor Bo Li’s lab studies the biology behind mental disorders. Learn more about how Li’s work is changing the way we think about mental health. Read the story »

Brain, interrupted

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How key brain receptor works in hostile conditions

5/9/2018

A structural variation enables a key brain receptor to function in a hostile environment Read the story »

Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

4/27/2018

A relatively small neuroscience group at CSHL is having an outsized impact on a dynamic and highly competitive field Read the story »

Detailed images of NMDA receptor show how zinc and a potential drug affect its function

12/1/2016

Drugs precisely targeting portions of the NMDA receptor may have applications in Alzheimer’s, depression and schizophrenia. Read the story »

Innovative tools will shed clarifying light on inhibitory neurons

9/21/2016

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory created a set of tools that combine genetic markers and virus particles to target GABA cell types. Read the story »

Thinking about cognition with recent graduate Kristen Delevich

4/8/2015

Watson School graduate Kristen Delevich studies how different brain regions communicate with one another. Read the story »

Scientists discover important communication mechanism between two brain areas implicated in schizophrenia

4/7/2015

Researchers discover an inhibitory connection between certain brain areas that can control the timing of information flow to the prefrontal cortex Read the story »

Research sees overlap in altered genes found in schizophrenia, autism and intellectual disability

4/28/2014

New evidence supports theory that some cases of schizophrenia and autism have malfunctions in some of the same genes are contributing to pathology. Read the story »

Scientists discover two proteins that control chandelier cell architecture

1/16/2014

Chandelier cells, a group of powerful inhibitory neurons, are important in epilepsy and schizophrenia Read the story »

4 CSHL neuroscientists win NARSAD Young Investigator awards to study autism, schizophrenia

8/14/2013

Four early-career neuroscientists have been awarded prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator grants Read the story »

One experiment: A journey to human biology’s final frontier, the brain

12/1/2012

Professor Partha Mitra and team work on the first brain circuit map of a mouse's brain to identify circuit alterations in neurological disorders. Read the story »

CSHL’s sequencing power gets a fresh boost

8/12/2011

W. Richard McCombie discusses the evolution of genomic sequencing technology and the use of new third generation machines. Read the story »

Neuroscientists gather on Long Island

6/24/2011

Several CSHL neuroscientists met to discuss innovative research in the field at a local symposium. Read the story »

Collaboration column: SMA therapeutics and potential drug target for schizophrenia

3/11/2011

CSHL's Adrian Krainer works on treatment for spinal muscular atrophy that reverses the disease's symptoms. Read the story »