CSHL Story archive for Tag: schizophrenia

Interview with a neuroscientist

May 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.

Brain, interrupted

Let us pick your brain with some neuroscience trivia.

How key brain receptor works in hostile conditions

May 9, 2018

A structural variation enables a key brain receptor to function in a hostile environment

Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

April 27, 2018

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

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

December 1, 2016

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

Innovative tools will shed clarifying light on inhibitory neurons

September 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.

Thinking about cognition with recent graduate Kristen Delevich

April 8, 2015

Watson School graduate Kristen Delevich studies how different brain regions communicate with one another.

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

April 7, 2015

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

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

April 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.

Scientists discover two proteins that control chandelier cell architecture

January 16, 2014

Chandelier cells, a group of powerful inhibitory neurons, are important in epilepsy and schizophrenia

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

August 14, 2013

Four early-career neuroscientists have been awarded prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator grants

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

December 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.

CSHL’s sequencing power gets a fresh boost

August 12, 2011

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

Neuroscientists gather on Long Island

June 24, 2011

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

Collaboration column: SMA therapeutics and potential drug target for schizophrenia

March 11, 2011

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