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Kenneth Fish, PhD, says that normal pruning of a special class of inhibitory nerve cells in the prefrontal cortex may be blunted in schizophrenia. Learn More
Exposure to moderate-level noise soon after you experience loud, potentially damaging sounds seems to be much better than silence for averting development of ringing in the ears, says Karl Kandler. Learn More
Nathan Urban, PhD, leaves his special projects position, to become vice provost for graduate studies and strategic initiatives. Urban will also lead development efforts. Learn More
Doiron has received a $2.2M Vannevar Bush fellowship. He and his colleagues have created a mathematical model that can predict the actions of many neurons. Learn More
Deadline for proposals requesting up to $40,000 is Monday, July 3. Learn More
PBS chronicles the decades of groundbreaking work by Herbert Needleman, who showed that chronic, low-level lead poisoning can cause devastating neurological impairment in children. Learn More
In an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, Zongqi Xia, MD, PhD, and Robert Friedlander, MD, urge more study of the effect of minocycline in the earliest stage of multiple sclerosis. Learn More
The study in Translational Psychiatry found more depression in adolescents than previously thought, and far more girls than boys are affected. Learn More
Pure happenstance prompted Mark Gladwin, MD, to try a genetically engineered version of a molecule called neuroglobin, which the brain produces naturally. Learn More
PittMed features physician-scientist Lisa Pan, MD, who discovered unexpected metabolic deficiencies in some of her depressed patients, for whom no previous treatments had worked. Learn More
After success with fMRI, Kymberly Young, PhD, is studying whether comparable results are possible with electroencephalograms, which would be more affordable for broad use. Learn More
Tudor Jovin, MD, and colleagues found that neurological deficits were reduced in patients who got endovascular procedures up to 24 hours after a stroke. Learn More
Adolescent expert Sansea L. Jacobson, MD, writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about serious shortcomings of the Netflix series that dramatizes teen suicide. Learn More
Lead researcher Karen Matthews, PhD, found long-term consequences for physical and mental health, both in those who were picked on, and in the bullies. Learn More
Women who have had a baby before the third trimester can minimize risk of severe neurodevelopmental complications in the next child, if told to delay pregnancy and get timely shots of progesterone. Learn More
The inventive virologist was the last surviving member of the original research team that developed the Salk polio vaccine. Learn More
Kymberly Young, PhD, saw promising results when depressed adults tried fMRI neurofeedback. Subjects learned to regulate signals from the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in processing emotion. Learn More
Pitt's Services for Teens At Risk, or STAR, Center marks 30 years as one of the nation's first youth suicide prevention centers at a two-day conference with 27 researchers from six countries. Learn More
Bernard Goldstein, MD, past dean of the Graduate School of Public Health, says tainted water may be less harmful to the developing brain than other factors related to lead poisoning. Learn More
Author Niki Kapsambelis chronicles the quest of Pitt researchers to see into the brains of patients as Alzheimer's disease develops over time. Lives became entwined in the process. Learn More