Community Stories

January 13, 2025
Jakob Hartmann and Kerry Ressler share new work uncovering how SKA2, a protein regulating stress-related signaling, interacts with the glucocorticoid receptor to maintain balance in the brain’s stress response. By highlighting altered SKA2 expression in bipolar disorder, this work offers new insights into the molecular underpinnings of stress-related psychiatric conditions and potential pathways for therapeutic intervention.
December 10, 2024
Sophie Barton shares new research investigating how humans may have unwittingly altered the brain morphology of domestic dogs through selective breeding for head shape. Dogs with extreme head shapes show widespread reductions in gray matter volume across the brain.
October 10, 2024
Clifford Woolf shares a perspectives piece about what scientists can learn from the opioid crisis as they develop new pain treatments. The piece is part of a special Nature Outlook edition on pain.
September 9, 2024
Tari Tan shares an article she has written in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education together with colleagues from three other institutions, providing a general overview of the neuroscience PhD admissions landscape, followed by a deeper dive into two specific examples, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Harvard and discussion of training programs that increase participation and diversity in neuroscience.

In the News

February 4, 2025
New research from Diane Mathis and colleagues, first author Miguel Marin-Rodero. identifies guardian immune cells dwelling in the protective layers of the brain.
Original article in: Science Immunology >
February 4, 2025
The anesthetic ketamine has become increasingly popular as a treatment for people with severe depression that resists conventional therapies. Now, new research using zebrafish from Florian Engert and colleagues at Janelia, co-first authors Marc Duque Ramírez and Alex Chen provides new insights into how it works.
Original article in: Neuron >
February 4, 2025
New research from Jon Clardy and colleagues, co-first authors Sunghee Bang and Yern-Hyerk Shin, has pinpointed a biologic mechanism that strengthens the evidence that one species of gut bacteria, Morganella morganii, influences brain health and provides a plausible explanation for how it does so.

Awards & Honors

February 4, 2025
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
January 17, 2025
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.

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Spiral ganglion neuron density. Image courtesy of Isle Bastille (Lab of Lisa Goodrich, Harvard Medical School).