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Prefrontal circuit mechanisms underlying antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation: a role for metabotropic glutamate receptors

Puja Parekh (PI)
National Institute of Mental Health 1F32MH117973-01A1

Weill Cornell Medicine Experiences Dynamic Growth in Research Funding

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Weill Cornell Medicine has experienced dynamic growth in its research enterprise over the past five years, an achievement that underscores the institution’s mission to provide patients with the most advanced treatments and therapies.

Since 2014, Weill Cornell Medicine’s research support from the National Institutes of Health has surged more than 40 percent. This expansion in the research enterprise coincides with the opening of the Belfer Research...

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Samantha Meadows Receives the 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Astrocytes have many functions in the brain and have recently been shown to modulate cognition. However, it remains unclear exactly how astrocytes affect cognitive function and if those mechanisms are impaired by aging or disease.

The Orr laboratory is focused on understanding...

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Efficacy of biomarker-guided rTMS for treatment resistant depression

Conor Liston (PI)
National Institute of Mental Health 1R01MH118388-01

Ketamine reverses neural changes underlying depression.

Dr. Conor Liston

In a study published in Science 12 April 2019, Dr. Conor Liston and teams of scientists have identified that ketamine-induced changes in the brain are responsible for the remission of depression in mice. These findings may help researchers develop interventions that promote lasting remission of depression in humans.

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Study Shows How Ketamine Reverses Depression—and How its Benefits Could Be Extended

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The powerful but temporary benefits of ketamine against depression might be extended if the new brain-cell connections it promotes could be preserved, according to a new study published April 12 in Science from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Depression affects tens of millions of people in the United States alone, which could lead to...

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Astronaut Twins Study Yields New Insights, Algorithms and Portable DNA Sequencing Tools

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Long-term spaceflight causes more changes to gene expression than shorter trips, especially to the immune system and DNA repair systems, according to research by Weill Cornell Medicine and NASA investigators as part of NASA’s Twins Study, which followed the only set of identical twin astronauts for more than two years.  

Dr. Christopher Mason, an associate...

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Academic Year 2019

Jordi Magrane (PI)
Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc. MDAA 629299
Cell & non-cell autonomous effects of frataxin deficiency in FA pathophysiology

Subhash Sinha (PI)
The JPB Foundation JPG 205199-01
Developing compounds for Alzheimer disease target discovery and therapy

Song-Hai Shi (PI)
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative 567854...

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Risk of Cardiovascular Event Jumps Significantly Before Cancer Diagnosis

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Older adults with cancer are nearly 70 percent more likely to suffer a stroke or heart attack in the year prior to their diagnosis compared with peers without a cancer diagnosis in that same time period, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators.

The paper, published Dec. 21 in the...

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Measuring Brain Responses to Speech Provides Evidence of Cognition in Patients with Severe Brain Injury

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Measuring brain activity in response to hearing a brief narrative can identify patients with severe brain injury who have preserved high-level cognition despite showing limited or no consciousness at the bedside, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

The paper, published Nov. 21 in Current Biology, is the first to describe a method for measuring the delay in brain processing of...

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