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Three Neuroscience Center Faculty receive 2014 NARSAD Independent Investigator Awards

April 8, 2014

Flavio Frohlich, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will conduct a trial of a non-invasive brain stimulation method developed in his lab for the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder. This method uniquely provides adaptive, individualized stimulation. Called “feedback transcranial alternating current stimulation,” it manipulates brain activity through a weak electric current, not … Read more

New Insights into Medulloblastoma from Deshmukh Lab

March 5, 2014

Beth Knight, a graduate student in Mohanish Deshmukh’s lab, has found a novel gene that could be targeted for medulloblastoma. Beth’s research identified the ASC gene to be essential for medulloblastoma in mouse models. This finding was unexpected because ASC is typically associated with the detection of pathogens. However, Beth found that ASC is highly … Read more

Stuber Lab Publishes Neuron Cover Article

November 20, 2013

Alice Stamatakis from Stuber lab publishes paper in Neuron demonstrating that lateral habenula projecting VTA neurons promote reward by their release of GABA, not dopamine. This paper was featured on the cover of the November 20th issue of Neuron.