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Dr. Conor Liston Named Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

June 9, 2017

Dr. Conor Liston, an assistant professor of neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Institute and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar.

The Rita Allen Foundation funds early-career investigators in the fields of cancer, immunology, neuroscience and pain...

BMRI awarded training grant on the genetic and environmental influences on addiction

March 27, 2017

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Studies Linking Brain Hemorrhage and Epilepsy to Stroke Presented at Conference

February 24, 2017

Two Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators gave oral presentations at the International Stroke Conference on Feb. 23.

Dr. Santosh Murthy, an assistant professor of neurology and of neuroscience in the...

Academic Year 2017

January 9, 2017

Jordi Magrane (PI)

The Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA)
Functional analysis of primary sensory neurons and (proprio) sensory pathology
in Friedreich’s ataxia

Virginia Pickel (PI)
NIH grant R01DA042943
Aberrant prefrontal cortical plasticity and neurobehavioral consequences of adolescent marijuana

Thu Huynh (PI)
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December 7, 2016

Mother and child: Nancy Worthen doing art therapy with her daughter, Maggie, who was minimally conscious following a blood clot. Photo credit: Nancy Worthen

A severely brain injured woman, who recovered the ability to communicate using her left eye, restored connections and function of the areas of her brain responsible for producing expressive language and responding to human speech, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

The...

December 5, 2016

Dr. Conor Liston // Photo: Carlos Rene Perez

Patients with depression can be categorized into four unique subtypes defined by distinct patterns of abnormal connectivity in the brain, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine.

In a collaborative study published Dec. 5 in Nature Medicine, Dr. Conor Liston MD '08, an assistant professor of...

Cells of the Immune System Implicated in High Blood Pressure-Related Dementia

November 21, 2016

Giuseppe Faraco MD, PhD.

Drs. Josef Anrather, Corinne Benakis, and David Brea discover that GI tract bacteria can help reduce stroke severity.

April 1, 2016

Commensal microbiota affects ischemic stroke outcome by regulating...

Dr. Conor Liston receives the IMHRO / Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award

February 29, 2016

“Circuit Biomarkers for Diagnosing and Treating Neurophysiological Subtypes of Depression”

Dr....

Academic Year 2016

January 9, 2016

Margaret Elizabeth Ross (PI)
NIH/NICHD 2P01HD067244-06
Risk Genes and Environmental Interactions in Neural Tube Defects

Costantino Iadecola (PI)
NIH/NINDS 1R01NS100447-01
ApoE4 and mechanisms of diffuse white matter injury

Daniel J Thengone (PI)
NIH/NEI F31EY025535
Neuronal interactions during sensory adaptation

Manu Sharma (PI)
NIH/NIA...