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Brain Books for Your Summer Reading List
“The brain has as many neurons as there are stars in the Milky Way.” –Nancy C. Andreasen M.D., Ph.D., Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives member This summer, as you go on vacation, relax, and ponder...
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Father’s Day in Neuroscience
Every year, on the third Sunday of June, we dedicate the day to showing appreciation for the male figures who have made countless contributions and sacrifices on our behalves. Whether it’s work in an...
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World Cup Reignites Talk of Concussion Safety
We’re going to the finals! Tuesday night, the U.S. women’s soccer team defeated top-ranked Germany to score a place in the Women’s World Cup finals. But national pride and enthusiasm aside, this...
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From the Archives: Artists and Scientists Envision Dreaming
Dana Alliance member J. Allan Hobson has long been interested in sleep and dreaming, including classic research on rapid eye movement sleep. After he retired from Harvard, Hobson even built a museum,...
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Dana News E-Blast: July
Below is yesterday’s Dana News email blast. You can sign up to receive this (and other Dana email alerts and/or print publications) by going here. The Power of Tau by Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP...
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New Cerebrum Article Looks at Biomarkers for Depression
Photo credit: Shutterstock In deciding on article topics for Cerebrum, the Dana Foundation’s online journal, an advisory board generally considers recent studies of merit, replication, and the...
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Tackling the Issue of CTE in Sports
With another football season on the horizon, coupled with last week’s induction of legendary linebacker Junior Seau into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the controversial topic of chronic traumatic...
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From the Archives: Reducing Risks of Alzheimer’s
This year’s World Alzheimer Report is out, and plenty about it is scary. In 35 years, the number of people worldwide living with dementia will be around 131.5 million, up from today’s 46 million,...
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Dana News E-Blast: August
Here are some stories recently posted on www.dana.org: The Holy Grail of Psychiatry by Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD In 2013, a group led by Helen Mayberg published a groundbreaking paper that sought an...
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Dana News E-Blast: October
Here are some stories recently posted on www.dana.org: The Binge and the Brain by Alice V. Ely, Ph.D., and Anne Cusack, Psy.D. Who hasn’t dipped into that pint of Häagen-Dazs and finished the entire...
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From the Archives and Beyond: The Dancing Brain
Economist Ivar Hagendoorn’s fascination with dance led to a decade of neuroscience research, described in his 2003 essay in our Cerebrum journal. In “The Dancing Brain” he argues that while it is the...
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National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week (January 25-31)
On Monday, National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week began, sparking local events across the country in an effort to “shatter the myths” about drugs and alcohol, particularly among teens. The observance...
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The Blitz is On
Earlier this month, the senior vice president of the National Football League’s health and safety policy spoke at a hearing in Washington, D.C., where he was asked if there is a link between football...
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Dana Press Offers Cerebrum Anthology 2015
In the last ten years, we have learned more about neuroscience than in all of recorded history, writes Alan Leshner in the Foreword of the new Cerebrum: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science 2015, an...
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Dana Launches New Cerebrum Podcast
For almost a year, we’ve featured the authors of our monthly Cerebrum articles in a Q & A. With the May Cerebrum article, “A New Approach for Epilepsy,” we are transitioning to a podcast. Why are...
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Brainy Reads for Summer 2016
Need a book to take with you on your summer vacation? We have six brainy suggestions, all written by members of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (DABI) or prominent neuroscientists, that are...
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From the Archives: Treating Opioid Addiction
It is estimated that between 26.4 million and 36 million people abuse opioids worldwide; the US government estimates that 2.1 million people in the United States have substance use disorders related to...
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New Cerebrum Podcast: The Human Connectome Project
In our September Cerebrum article, “The Human Connectome Project: Progress and Prospects,” David Van Essen, Ph.D., and Matthew Glasser, Ph.D., write about an ambitious six-year collaboration between...
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Brain Game Setback
Two years ago we published a Cerebrum article, “The Brain Games Conundrum: Does Cognitive Training Really Sharpen the Mind?” Complicating the issue for our co-authors, Walter R. Boot and Arthur F....
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Global Mental Health and Neuroscience: Challenges and Opportunities
Sheckar Saxena at SfN, November 2016 “When it comes to mental health, all countries are developing countries. A country that does not look after the treatment of more than 50 percent of people with...
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