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Collaboration between the UNC School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota aims to provide scientists with breakthrough information about how the human brain develops from birth through early childhood.

The Pitt Hopkins Research foundation awarded its first ever gene therapy grant to Drs. Ben Philpot & Steve Gray, who are are collaborating on a project to investigate the feasibility of a gene therapy approach for Pitt-Hopkins syndrome (PTHS).

Spencer Smith has published two reviews in the September, 2016 issue of Nature Neuroscience

UNC School of Medicine researchers map the anxiety circuit in the brain and use a compound to limit fearful behavior – an acute side effect of commonly prescribed SSRI antidepressants.

On August 31st, Dr. Kellen Hassell began a 1,000 mile cycling journey from Miami, Florida to the Angelman Syndrome Clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hassell, a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the Florida International University, rode...

The annual list of Highly Cited Researchers recognized Garret Stuber, PhD, and Bryan Roth, MD/PhD, as highly cited scientists in their fields.

The Department of Psychiatry and the Neuroscience Center are pleased to announce that Dr. Hiroyuki Kato will be joining the faculty at UNC in early 2017.

The UNC Neuroscience Center has also joined UNC SPARK to fund a full-time staff person and undergraduates dedicated to community outreach.

The 16th Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize award ceremony and lecture was held on April 8th at 3PM in G202 MBRB.

In the journal Neuron, Ben Philpot, PhD, professor of cell biology and physiology, published his lab’s research analyzing the spatial determinants for UBE3A loss in the development of seizures and other hyperexcitability phenotypes in the brain