February 09, 2012
Article
This article outline a previously undescribed mechanism for understanding the molecular relationships between the hypothalamus and high-fat diets. Do they also hint at the creation of a fat pill?
October 07, 2011
Article
This column has always been about the world of molecular mental health research. I revisit the technology in this column, now aimed at one of molecular neuropsychiatry’s most intractable, frustrating lines of research: the molecular/cellular basis of schizophrenia.
June 10, 2011
Article
Gene therapy (sometimes called gene replacement therapy) attempts to ameliorate genetic-based disorders by introducing corrected genes into affected patients.
May 05, 2011
Article
In this column, we explore how the judicious use of neural stem cells (NSCs) has led to a research Holy Grail: the creation of research-ready, patient-specific neurons.
April 06, 2011
Article
One of the most remarkable discoveries in the field of life span alteration occurred in the past century and has to do with caloric restriction.
February 10, 2011
Article
Pushing the edge of our understanding into the murky world of association cortex only means that future experiments will be trickier to interpret.