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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

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Inscopix, Inc. (“Inscopix”) announced the first DECODE awardees at a special event held in Washington D.C., on the sidelines of the Society for Neuroscience 44th Annual Meeting. The $2 Million DECODE (Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease) Grant Program was launched this past summer to support the Presidential BRAIN Initiative.

WASHINGTON, Sept 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Inscopix, Inc. (“Inscopix”) today announced the doubling of its DECODE (Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease) Grant Program commitment to $2 Million at the White House BRAIN Initiative Conference. Inscopix launched the DECODE Grant Program in response to President Obama’s “All Hands on Deck” call to action for the BRAIN

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Inscopix, Inc. (“Inscopix”) today announced the launch of its DECODE (Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease) Grant Program in response to President Obama’s “all hands on deck” call to action for the BRAIN Initiative. Through the $ 1 Million DECODE Grant Program, Inscopix hopes to bolster extramural research

Despite formidable odds, this year was a good one for life science innovation. The double punch of the government-wide belt tightening, known as the sequester, and the two-week federal government shutdown deflated institutional budgets and sowed uncertainty among investors. But new and exciting products still made their way into the marketplace. And with more than

Earlier this year, researchers at Stanford University for the first time recorded 1,000 neurons working together in a living brain for a month. The brain cells blinked like Christmas tree lights as a test mouse moved freely around its cage. They soon were able to pinpoint the mouse’s location just by watching its brain cells.

The images appearing on the computer screen were almost too detailed and fast-moving to take in, Misha B. Ahrens remembers. He and colleague Philipp J. Keller were recording the activity of about 80,000 neurons in a live zebrafish brain, the first time something on this scale had been done. Cross-sectional pictures of the young fish’s