Tag: Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

  • Nation & World

    Someone stole Karestan Koenen’s future. She took it back.

    Trauma expert speaks from brutal experience

    11 minutes
    Karestan Koenen.
  • Nation & World

    Mapping the developing brain

    Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a detailed atlas of a critical region of the developing mouse brain, applying multiple advanced genomic technologies to the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for processing sensation from the body.

    6 minutes
    Microscopy image of the developing cerebral cortex
  • Nation & World

    New vista for brain disorder research

    For the first time, researchers describe the types of cells generated in brain organoids, networks of nerve cells, and show the greater diversity, complexity, and response to stimulation developed for nine months and longer.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    $650M gift to Broad seeks to propel psychiatric research

    Philanthropist Ted Stanley announced plans to donate $650 million to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to foster research into psychiatric diseases, whose biological causes, long a mystery, scientists have begun to tease out in recent years.

    14 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Researchers shed new light on schizophrenia

    Harvard-affiliated researchers joined an international team to identify more than 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia in what is the largest genomic study published on any psychiatric disorder to date.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A Q&A forum with the president

    Harvard President Drew Faust answered a wide range of student questions in an open meeting hosted Wednesday by the Harvard Undergraduate Council.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Q&A with Steven E. Hyman

    President Drew Faust recently announced the creation of a University-wide task force to recommend how the University can better prevent sexual misconduct involving students. The task force will include students, faculty, and staff from across Harvard and will consult widely within the Harvard community and beyond.

    7 minutes