Garret Stuber received a 2 year, $400,000 award from the Klarman Family Foundation to study “limbic neural circuits that regulate binge eating”. In the proposed experiments the Stuber lab will investigate the functional connectivity between the extended amygdala and the lateral hypothalamus to determine how genetically defined cell types within these regions can promote or … Read more
Spencer Smith, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology, and the UNC Neuroscience Center, will use the additional funding to pursue experiments to shed light on the role of dendrites in neuron function and computation.
This discovery has implications for how people perceive hot and cold temperatures and for why people with certain forms of chronic pain experience heightened responses to cold temperatures.
The findings could lead to new mental health therapies for disorders such as addiction, anxiety, and depression.
Professor Edvard Moser and Professor May-Britt Moser are director and co-director, respectively, of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and they jointly lead the Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
New research from UNC provides a neurological justification for this therapeutic approach, but researchers caution there could be unanticipated effects.
UNC researchers track a gene’s crucial role in orchestrating the placement of neurons in the developing brain. Their findings help unravel some of the mysteries of Joubert syndrome and other neurological disorders.
“In a life ended too early, she made key scientific gains”
250 neuroscientists gathered for the 13th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium held October 25, 2012
A new activity-dependent role for the protein heavily implicated in autism, Neuroligin-1, identified