The development of new, safe, and effective treatment options for neuropsychiatric illness has been very challenging. Brian Kangas, Bill Carlezon and Diego Pizzagalli share new work aiming to accelerate progress in this critical research area, with the development of behavioral and neural testing methods in rats designed to have high concordance to methods used in clinical patient populations.

Chris Chen of Wade Regehr's lab shares new research on ephaptic coupling--a unique form of neuronal communication that is not mediated by chemicals or physical connections--in the cerebellum.

A new perspective piece from Charles Lieber and Shaun Patel on how precision electronic medicine in the brain can offer a better way to treat brain disorders, control prosthetics, or even enhance cognitive abilities.

BCH Vector Blog article on a new study from the lab of Charles Nelson (first author Lara Pierce) assessing new mothers’ stress levels and EEG patterns in their 2-month-old babies. Such patterns could help flag at-risk infants.

Charles Lieber and his colleagues published a paper on neural probes that are less detectable by the human brain and may be more effective in treatment.

Stephen Zhang, a neuroscience graduate student in the labs of Michael Crickmore and Dragana Rogulja, was awarded a 2019 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

This award is the highest honor given by the Learning Disabilities Association of America. It's given annually in recognition of and appreciation for outstanding leadership at the national level.

BCH Vector Blog post on new work from the labs of Mustafa Sahin, Wade Regehr and colleagues, delineating sensitive periods for the treatment of cerebellum-mediated autistic-like behaviors in mice

BCH Vector Blog post on recent research on the genes involved in the regulation of brain folding, speech motor development from labs of Maria Lehtinen, Christopher A. Walsh and colleagues.

BCH Vector Blog post highlighting work from the labs of Michela Fagiolini at HMS/Boston Children's Hospital, Hui Fang at Northeastern University and colleagues on innovation in EEG technologies.