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Research into alcohol use disorder: Imagining future events changes brain to improve healthy decision-making , articleA new study by Virginia Tech scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC found practicing episodic future thinking both reduced impulsivity and enhanced connectivity in key regions of the brain.
Date: Mar 19, 2025 - -
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How your brain learns from rewards might hold the key to treating depression , articleIn a new study, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists Pearl Chiu and Brooks Casas investigate how brain signals involved in reward learning might help personalize depression treatment.
Date: Jan 22, 2025 - -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute appoints interim directors for research centers focused on addiction recovery and health behaviors , articleA team of four researchers will continue to advance the extensive work underway at the Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research.
Date: Oct 18, 2024 - -
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‘Stimulants are coming back’: Addiction scientists seek to better understand cocaine use disorder , articleWarren Bickel and Stephen LaConte at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute hope the study will inform demand and cravings for a substance involved in nearly one in five overdose deaths
Date: May 14, 2023 - -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute expands Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program , articleMore than 30 undergraduate and high school students worked behind the curtain of biomedical research this summer at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Aug 16, 2022 - -
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NIH grant will fund graduate student’s study of human brain activity in alcohol use disorder , articleJeremy Myslowski, a doctoral student working in the lab of Stephen LaConte at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will use the award to study new ways to quantify severity of alcohol use disorder with neuroimaging and to test whether this disorder also impairs brain regulation.
Date: Apr 15, 2022 - -
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Virginia Tech scientists find link between microorganisms and early brain development , articleThe study, published in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, indicates that bacteria, viruses, and fungi are critical to early brain development, and their absence has been speculated to be possibly related to disorders including autism, schizophrenia, depression, and ADHD.
Date: Feb 23, 2022 - -
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Virginia Tech launches ‘next generation’ human brain imaging lab , articleResearchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health, to measure the brain’s subtle magnetic signals in two research volunteers simultaneously as they interact, capturing the rich complexity of the brain’s signaling during face-to-face social interactions in real-time.
Date: May 12, 2021 - -
Video ItemVirginia Tech launches ‘next generation’ human brain imaging lab , video
Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received a $2.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to deploy a breakthrough new brain imaging technique called optically pumped magnetometry to study the nuances of social interactions.
Date: May 12, 2021 - -
Video ItemMeet our Scientists: Dr. Chiu, Dr. DeLuca, Dr. LaConte, Dr. Robel, and Dr. Stein , video
<div>The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s researchers have diverse backgrounds. Learn more about their research, hobbies, backgrounds, and why they became scientists in our 2021 weekly video series.</div>
Date: Feb 18, 2021 - -
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Scientists explore new method to help people with alcohol use disorder , articleNew ways to help people resist the siren call of alcohol have not kept pace — which leaves health care providers stuck with the same intervention and rehabilitation options they have been using for decades. But now, Virginia Tech scientists are studying whether people battling alcohol use disorder might gain some relief by “pre-experiencing” the future.
Date: Feb 14, 2020 - -
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FDA deems molecular test for concussions ‘breakthrough device’ , articleBRAINBox Solutions, a molecular diagnostics innovator that works extensively with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, announced it has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration Breakthrough Device Designation to speed development of a product that includes a blood-based test to aid in prognosis and diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury.
Date: Jun 17, 2019 - -
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Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors selects projects to tackle lifestyle-related diseases , articleCollaborative teams of Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic investigators are exploring the consequences of destructive health behavior in people struggling with poor adherence to breast cancer treatment regimes, opioid dependence, and cardiovascular disease.
Date: Jan 04, 2019 - -
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VTCRI researchers find positive effects of early education intervention four decades later , articleNew research published in Nature Communications, led by Read Montague, of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, suggests that participants who received educational interventions in early childhood show positive effects on social decision-making more than four decades later.
Date: Nov 20, 2018 - -
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VTCRI hackathon to draw coders from Intel, Princeton, Yale , articleResearchers and software developers will be writing code to analyze the ultimate computer — the brain — at the BrainIAK Hackathon, a three-day event beginning Sept. 26 for people who would like to use, build, or improve software related to neuroscience and machine learning.
Date: Sep 24, 2018 - -
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Fulbright fellowship awarded to VTCRI research assistant , articleBrennan Delattre will research the mental health benefits of cooperative movement in Niterói, Brazil.
Date: Aug 07, 2018 - -
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VTCRI wins award to develop test for mild traumatic brain injury, working with industry partners, University of Virginia , articleThe project has won the support of the Virginia Catalyst, which has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute to further develop and commercialize a multi-modality system approach to aid in the diagnosis and management of mild traumatic brain injury, known as mTBI.
Date: May 15, 2018 - -
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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute partners with INSIGHTEC to research focused ultrasound technology , articleThrough this collaboration, the institute became the company’s first nonclinical research site.
Date: Jan 29, 2018 - -
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Early childhood education expert to cap Brain School, highlight Brain Awareness Week , articleGreg J. Duncan, a distinguished professor in the School of Education, and departments of economics, psychology, and social behavior at the University of California, Irvine, will highlight Brain Awareness Week, which begins March 13. The presentation will be the capstone course for the fifth annual Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Brain School.
Date: Mar 10, 2017 - -
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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute to host Brain Awareness Week , articleScientists will reveal more about what they have learned about the brain’s developmental journey when the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute opens its doors for its fifth annual Brain School during Brain Awareness Week from March 13-19.
Date: Feb 15, 2017 -
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