Brain

Impairments in a brain area involved in social perception may help explain why individuals with schizophrenia have trouble reading social cues. Read More

Recreational Ecstasy use is associated with a chronic change in brain function, raising concerns about proposals to use it to treat post-traumatic stress and other disorders. Read More

New molecular views of an enzyme may inform therapies for neurological, psychiatric or cardiac diseases. Read More

Patients with certain autonomic nervous system disorders have impaired odor identification, which could aid in diagnosis. Read More

Researchers have for the first time successfully used brain imaging to predict how children will respond to programs that help them improve their grammar. Read More

Left to right: Karen Gregory, Elizabeth Hammock, Peilin Jia, John Panos Eight Vanderbilt University scientists have won 2010 Young Investigator Awards from NARSAD, the world’s leading mental health research charity. Each scientist will receive up to $60,000 over two years for innovative brain and behavioral studies of serious psychiatric disorders. Read More

RSV prefers stressed cells “Stress granules” – globs of proteins and RNAs – form inside cells in response to environmental stressors and are thought to regulate protein production. Several viruses induce stress granule formation, but the function of these structures during virus replication is not well understood. James Crowe Jr.,… Read More

Ezra Fitz (Photo credit: Daniel Dubois, Vanderbilt University) In late January of 2006, I was looking neither at tide pools, nor at stars. I was staring intently – just as I am now, as I’m writing this – into a computer screen, trying to cover a bone-white Word document with… Read More