November 2014

Alex Kwan, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and of neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, has received a DECODE grant to probe the cellular mechanisms that lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The project will be led by Alfred Kaye, MD, PhD, a psychiatry resident affiliated with the department’s Neuroscience Research Training Program. Ronald Duman,

Neuroscientists at the Donders Institute Francesco Battaglia and Nael Nadif Kasri have been awarded a DECODE grant, an initiative from neurotechnology company Inscopix. The award allows them to use an innovative mini-microscope that can image the activity of hundreds of neurons at the same time in the brains of freely moving mice. Neural activity is

Tom Insel, Director, NIMH, with awardees of Inscopix’s DECODE Grant Program(Harvard/MGH’s Amar Sahay, PhD, fifth from left) Ten scientists granted $2 million by neuroscience startup to study brain disease. Amar Sahay, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, was one of ten scientists to receive the first DECODE (Deciphering Circuit Basis

To support the NIH BRAIN Initiative, Garret Stuber, PhD, will use a new kind of microscope to further his lab’s investigation of brain circuits related to obesity. This past week at the Society of Neurosciences annual meeting, UNC School of Medicine researcher Garret Stuber, PhD, was one of 13 top neuroscientists to receive a grant

Richard Mooney, the George Barth Geller Professor of Neurobiology, was recently awarded a $150,000 miniature microscope by a California startup, Inscopix Inc, which makes the device. Device will allow real-time imaging of active neurons. The microscope weighs only two grams but can be used to visualize thousands of neurons in a living animal. Mooney said

The Picower Institute congratulates Mark Bear, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and other awardees selected to receive one of 10 Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease (DECODE) two-year grants. Given to what National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Director Thomas Insel called the “best and brightest scientists,” the