Featured Scientist
Fei Du, PhD
Director, Advanced MR Imaging and Spectroscopy, McLean Hospital
Director, Translational Neuroimaging Research, McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Translational Neuroimaging Research, McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
The Du lab uses MRI/MRS and translational neuroimaging in order to outline the trajectories of biological abnormalities, and to identify biomarkers of disease progression and treatment response for neuropsychiatric disorders.
Our Neuroscience Community
Burgers, Bartending and Benchwork: My Journey to Graduate School
Graduate student Ya'el Courtney (lab of Maria Lehtinen, Boston Children's Hospital) shares her story about navigating a difficult adolescence, facing financial challenges, and her journey to graduate school and neuroscience research.
Graduate student Ya'el Courtney (lab of Maria Lehtinen, Boston Children's Hospital) shares her story about navigating a difficult adolescence, facing financial challenges, and her journey to graduate school and neuroscience research.
The Role of Dopamine in Impulsivity, Risk-Seeking, and Exploration
John Mikhael and Sam Gershman argue that dopamine gates the influence of contextual information when making decisions. They show that this view captures dopamine’s seemingly conflicting roles in impulsivity, risk preferences, and the exploration-exploitation trade-off.
John Mikhael and Sam Gershman argue that dopamine gates the influence of contextual information when making decisions. They show that this view captures dopamine’s seemingly conflicting roles in impulsivity, risk preferences, and the exploration-exploitation trade-off.
Screening Against Pathological Neuronal Firing
Xuan Huang and Kasper Roet from the Woolf lab introduced a new phenotypic screening platform targeting neuronal excitability. Using the fluorescent GCaMP reporter and a chemogenomic library, they were able to identify molecular targets that modulate ALS motoneuron hyper-excitability.
Xuan Huang and Kasper Roet from the Woolf lab introduced a new phenotypic screening platform targeting neuronal excitability. Using the fluorescent GCaMP reporter and a chemogenomic library, they were able to identify molecular targets that modulate ALS motoneuron hyper-excitability.
Upcoming Events
gNeuro – September Meeting
September 13, 2021
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Location: Virtual Event
Featuring: Herriet Hsieh (Lab of Lauren Orefice, MGH) and Amy Shepherd (Lab of Meenakshi Rao, BCH)4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Location: Virtual Event
HBI Career Chat with Stephanie Courchesne
September 22, 2021
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Location: Virtual Event
Featuring Stephanie Courchesne (Senior Advisor in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health)12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Location: Virtual Event