Research Roundup: October 2019
Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by Duke Neurobiology in October 2019:
Motor Learning:
Parkinson's Disease: The Stars in Our Brains
More than 10 million people worldwide—about 1 percent of people over age 60—live with Parkinson’s disease. There are treatments that can help control symptoms, but there is no cure.
Prigge wins Research Week's Basic Sciences Research Poster Session
Cameron Prigge presented her research in the Basic Sciences Research poster session of the School of Medicine’s Inaugural School of Medicine Research Week and won first place.
Dzirasa Receives Young Investigator Award
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, with this year’s Young Investigator Award.
Research Roundup: August and September 2019
Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by Duke Neurobiology in August and September 2019:
Motor Learning:
Researchers Named NIH "New Innovators"
School of Medicine researchers Diego Bohórquez Ph.D. and Opeyemi Olabisi M.D., Ph.D.
Duke Teams Recieve NIH Funding to Address Chronic Pain
Fan Wang, together with William Maixner and Ru-Rong Ji, will lead a research project to identify new central analgesic circuits that could be harnessed to treat chronic pain.
Yang lab Identifies Molecule that Limits Sensitivity of Drosophila Taste Neurons
When making feeding decisions for themselves or their progenies, animals must accurately decode both the identity and the quantity of relevant chemicals in potential food options.