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Webinar Recap: The Microbiome and Mental Health

Can we lessen the likelihood of getting psychiatric disorders?

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Teasing out Different Subtypes of Depression

Recent brain scan analysis suggests four distinct kinds of depression, says Conor Liston, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Feil Family Brain & Mind Res

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HIKE for Mental Health

Recently, Leo R. Walker, President & Treasurer of HIKE For Mental Health, visited the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) offices to present a check for $41,000 to the Foundation and its President & CEO, Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D.

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Seeds of Psychosis: Rejecting Parenting Myths, Revealing Underlying Genetic Origins

The search for the seeds of psychosis goes back to the very start of psychiatry. In the late 19th century, Emil Kraepelin, one of the first adherents of the idea that mental disorders have biological causes, described psychosis as a form of early-onset dementia.

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2017 Distinguished Investigators

In 2017, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awarded $1.7 million in Distinguished Investigator Grants to 17 scientists, who are full professors or the equivalent, conducting innovative projects in diverse areas of neurobiological and behavioral research.

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