Deanne Buffalari transfers an NIH National Research Service Award to Pitt - January 15, 2010
Dr. Deanne Buffalari, a postdoc researcher, recently joined Dr. Linda Rinaman's lab, and brought with her an NRSA grant, Beta-Noradrenergic Receptor Blockage of Cocaine Withdrawal-induced Anxiety, effective January 15, 2010.
Dr. Georgina Cano is awarded a grant - January 1, 2010
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Georgina Cano, a Research Assistant Professor in the Department, has been awarded a grant from the Hope for Depression Research Foundation entitled Neurobiological Substrates Underlying the Relationship Between Insomnia and Depression , effective January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010.
Grant awarded to Dr. Georgina Cano - December 1, 2009
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Georgina Cano, a Research Assistant Professor in the Department, has been awarded a grant from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation entitled Potential Protective Role of Oxytocin in Primary Insomnia: Gender Differences on Sleep Parameters and Brain Activation among Males, Females, and Females with Offspring, effective December 1, 2009 - November 30, 2010.
Katy Gill receives a NIH National Research Service Award - December 1, 2009
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Katy Gill, a postdoc researcher in Dr. Anthony Grace's lab, has been awarded a three year NRSA grant, Amygdala Modulation of Hippocampus Accumbens Interaction Relevance to Depression, effective December 1, 2009.
Grant Awarded to Paul G. Middlebrooks - September 1, 2009
Congratulations go out to Paul G. Middlebrooks, a PhD student in Dr. Sommer's lab, who has been awarded an NIH National Research Service Award entitled The Neural Basis of Metacognition. Paul's two year proposal seeks to explore how the brain "thinks about thinking" to help understand how to treat patients with disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience in the News
Researchers See Pattern in PTSD Brain Activity
Reuters – January 20
U.S. researchers have discovered a distinct pattern of brain activity in people with post traumatic stress disorder that may give doctors an objective way to test for it, they said on Wednesday.
A Genetic Link Between Migraines and Depression?
Time – January 20
If you had headaches that were so bad they made you nauseous, landed you in bed and sometimes lasted for days, you'd have a right to be depressed.
Monkey See, Monkey Calculate: How Are Primates’ Brains Wired for Math?
Scientific American – January 18
Like a lot of humans, monkeys might not be able to do calculus. But a new study shows that they can learn and rapidly apply abstract mathematical principles.
Visualizing schizophrenia
New York Times – June 13, 2008
Times Essential: Expert Q&A with Paul Thompson. Paul Thompson is professor of neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and leads the research group at the school’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging. He uses imaging technology to map disease processes involving the human brain, carried out in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health and more than 40 laboratories around the world. A goal is to create disease-specific atlases of the brain that can aid in the diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of illnesses like schizophrenia.
