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Application Deadline: December 10, 2018
The 2019 session of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development for Academic Scientists will be held March 25-28, 2019 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Rockville, MD (co-located with ASENT 2019 Annual Meeting).
This intensive 3 ½ day course in neurotherapeutics...
Is the key to Alzheimer’s disease lurking, overlooked, in the 100,000-plus scientific papers that have been published on this disease over the last century?
A Texas businessman who lost family members to dementia thinks so, and on Monday he announced that there’s $4 million waiting for the people who find it: Prizes of up to $2 million will be awarded to those who comb the scientific...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative in April 2018 to accelerate scientific discovery to stem the opioid public health crisis. Join the Association of American Medical Colleges on November 8 at 3:00 PM ET for a webinar featuring NINDS Director Dr. Walter J. Koroshetz, who will discuss the NIH HEAL Initiative's priorities in...
The transmission speed of neurons fluctuates in the brain to achieve an optimal flow of information required for day-to-day activities, according to a National Institutes of Health study. The results, appearing in PNAS, suggest that brain cells called astrocytes alter the transmission speed of neurons by changing the thickness of myelin, an insulation material, and the width of gaps in myelin...
The National Institutes of Health announced funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, an exciting trans-agency effort to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally understand the neural circuits that underlie the healthy and diseased brain. Supported by the...
