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A Path to Biomarkers

Q&A with Jong Yoon, M.D.

Predicting the path of illness for someone diagnosed with schizophrenia is difficult because its origins are so varied. Dana Grantee Jong Yoon is developing imaging methods to tease out the cellular mechanisms of one potential cause: too much dopamine production.
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A New Window into the Living Brain

Q&A with Jesse Schallek, Ph.D.

By adding analysis methods from astronomy to an imaging tool doctors use every day, Dana Grantee Jesse Schallek and his lab have found ways to see translucent cells at the back of the eye.
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It’s the Power of Love—in Voles

Q&A with Zoe Donaldson, Ph.D.

What is attachment and how does it form? By imaging individual cells in the brains of prairie voles, Dana Foundation Grantee Zoe Donaldson's lab has identified a neural network that signals how strong their preference for their partner is.
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Our Memories, Our Experiences

Q&A with Cristina Maria Alberini, Ph.D.

The ways the hippocampus grows and how it functions to learn and remember depend greatly on an animal’s life experiences, Dana Grantee Cristina Maria Alberini has found.
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Stimulating Consciousness

Q&A with Martin Monti, Ph.D.

Determining if a brain-injured person is conscious can be difficult when that person cannot respond to your questions or show some outward sign. Dana Grantee Martin Monti is using targeted ultrasound to try to re-awaken dormant neurons.

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Clear Contrast

Q&A with Mikhail Shapiro, Ph.D.

By using tiny pockets of air instead of proteins to label cells, Dana Foundation Grantee Mikhail Shapiro’s lab found a new way to safely dive deep into living brains.
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Neuroimaging: Many Analysts, Differing Results

70 teams processed the same collection of fMRI data – using different software, taking different steps, and setting different thresholds—and came to different conclusions more than half the time. With today’s huge datasets and multiple methods of analysis, it’s critical that researchers describe their methods precisely so others can reproduce their results.
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Back and Forth: Understanding the Neuroscience of Social Interactions

Q&A with Read Montague, Ph.D.

Dana Grantee Read Montague hopes the system he built to scan two people as they interact will help researchers understand why some people have social troubles and how to help them.
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The Art of Discovering New Brain Cells

Researchers ID new types of cells by looking at the brain through sharper lenses, searching vast gene expression databases, and crowd-sourcing visual analyses.
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The Revival of Brain PET

The development of new ‘radiotracers’ that bind to different proteins has opened a window into synaptic pruning, neurogenesis in the living human brain.
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