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The Voices in Our Head – How Can We Tell They’re Ours?

January 12, 2018

As you read this sentence you probably hear the words articulated in your mind. You likely hear that same voice as you decide what to order at Chipotle or silently play out a future social interaction. This phenomenon is known as inner speech and it is estimated that we spend about a quarter of our […]

Lisa Learman ⋅ Perspectives in Research neurology, psychiatric illness, Schizophrenia ⋅

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A Revelation About DREADDs: A New Neuroscience Technique with Promise for Clinical Psychiatric Treatment

October 19, 2017

In an essay I published last year for the Lasker Essay Contest (and republished in our blog), I described optogenetics and chemogenetics, two technologies recently developed for basic neuroscience research that have the potential to improve the way we treat psychiatric illness. The major drawback to drugs currently prescribed for diseases such as depression, PTSD, […]

David Ottenheimer ⋅ Perspectives in Research depression, epigenetics, PTSD, Schizophrenia ⋅

Carolina Montano: From Political Asylum to Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D.

June 22, 2015

I remember the day I first met Carolina Montano, a fellow student in the Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D. program. It was toward the beginning of my first year in medical school. We were both at a dinner for M.D./Ph.D. interviewees, and, as with many conversations between medical students, we inevitably began to discuss our classes. Carolina […]

Alisa Mo ⋅ A Day in the Life Brain, Cells, Colombia, DNA, Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D., Molecular Biology, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Neuronal Epigenetics, Neuroscience, Political Asylum, Schizophrenia ⋅

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