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Exploring a Potential New Therapy for Fatal Canavan Disease

Q&A with David Pleasure, M.D.

While others try to thin out the overabundance of an amino acid that critically damages the axons in infants with Canavan disease, Dana Foundation grantee David Pleasure aims to prevent the buildup itself.

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Testing Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Tourette’s

Q&A with Michelle Hampson, Ph.D.

Dana grantee Michelle Hampson describes how neurofeedback may be a good alternative treatment for tics and the challenges of developing the right training paradigms.

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Finding New Ways to Connect in a Crisis

Q&A with Myrna Weissman, Ph.D.

While many of us are sheltering in place, maintaining mood and friendships is more important than ever. We talk with Dana Alliance member Myrna Weissman, Ph.D., on how best to cope during forced isolation.
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Don’t Panic: How Stressful Situations Affect the Brain

Q&A with Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana Alliance member Eric Nestler explains the difference between stress and panic, how stress can lead to resilience, and how we can help ourselves cope.
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Understanding the Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Learning

Q&A with Michael Yartsev, Ph.D.

Most mammals know from birth how to make sounds that communicate, but not humans. And not bats: Dana grantee Michael Yartsev has collected reams of data on how Egyptian fruit bats learn to make sounds to communicate as a way to understand how we do it.
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Searching for Signs of Consciousness

Q&A with Jan Claassen, M.D.

Dana grantee Jan Claassen uses EEG to detect patterns of brain activity in people in coma who don’t physically respond to voice commands that suggest some may have “covert consciousness.”
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Learning by Association

Q&A with Randy Bruno, Ph.D.

Randy Bruno used his Dana grant to expand into behavior studies, and found that the sensory cortex does more than just sense—it learns based on reward.
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Seeking Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s

Q&A with Anthony Wagner, Ph.D.

In pioneering research measuring over-60s in many dimensions – using brain scans, biomarkers and psychometrics – Dana Grantee Anthony Wagner aims to uncover what affects memory later in life, and may even identify Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms occur
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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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Down Syndrome Awareness with Lynn Nadel and Jamie Edgin

Current research on Down syndrome focuses on the links between the chromosomal condition, sleep, and memory, and what the overlap between all three can mean for the brain overall.
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