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Virginia Tech neuroscientist offers insight into how loneliness can affect health , articleVirginia Tech neuroscientist Georgia Hodes says that reports of depression and anxiety are up at least 3-fold since the start of the COVID epidemic. “While loneliness and isolation are likely contributors, the COVID infection itself triggers a depressive episode in approximately 20 percent of people. Understanding how infection impacts mood may help us find new ways to treat individuals that do not fully respond to current antidepressants.”
Date: May 09, 2023 -
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Class of 2023: Classy Shepherd pursues her 'CSI'-inspired passion for forensics , articleWorking at the morgue may not be the typical summer job for a Hokie, but for clinical neuroscience major and future forensic pathologist Classy Shepherd, it offered a body of evidence that she was on the right path.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
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Neuroscientist to explore how diversity of neurons supports learning and memory in mammals , articleWith support from the Whitehall Foundation, Daniel English will explore how anatomical differences among neurons of the hippocampus translate to differences in how they support behaviors like episodic memory, the brain’s ability to hold onto sequences of experienced events.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech scientist identifies narrow opportunity to address a disease connected with autism, schizophrenia , articleA National Institutes of Health grant will allow a team led by Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, to further his 20-year deep dive into DiGeorge syndrome, a genetic disorder that is usually diagnosed too late for treatment.
Date: Mar 31, 2023 -
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Everyone invited to learn about our ‘electric’ brains at 10th annual Brain School , articleNeuroscientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and the School of Neuroscience will celebrate the amazing brain with their 10th annual Brain School program, “The Electric Brain,” starting at 5 p.m. March 13 at 4 Riverside Circle in Roanoke.
Date: Mar 03, 2023 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC professor celebrates authoring ‘tour of the human brain’ , articleThe seventh edition of “Neuroscience” introduces undergraduate, graduate, and medical students to the field.
Date: Feb 24, 2023 -
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School of Neuroscience and Department of Engineering Education receive University Exemplary Department or Program Award , articleThe 2022 award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning recognizes innovative approaches to helping early career faculty develop as effective teachers.
Date: Feb 21, 2023 -
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Neuroscientists learn why PTSD patients relive highly charged fear memories in sleep , articleSujith Vijayan of the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience has led a research team in creating biophysically based models of the sleeping brain to explore at a deeper, mechanistic level how the brain may — or may not, with PTSD — effectively process and extinguish fear memories.
Date: Feb 07, 2023 -
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Neuroscience’s Matt Howe seeks to better understand how ingredients interact with people's dopamine system , articleTo figure out how individual foods affect the dopamine system and what happens when all of the ingredients are presented in combination, Matt Howe recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant.
Date: Oct 11, 2022 -
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Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research Scholarships help students connect research to issues central to their lives , articleThis summer's research projects ranged from the neuroscience of addiction to returning the voices of Native women to the historical record to studying the emotional interplay between mothers and children.
Date: Sep 29, 2022 -
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Neuroscience doctoral student receives NIH award to study the little-known astrocyte , articleBeatriz T. Ceja Pinkston will use a National Institutes of Health grant to study astrocytes, cells in the brain that have complex, sponge-like shapes with thousands of branches from their cell body that allow them to interact with thousands of things at once.
Date: Sep 26, 2022 -
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Students selected for Roanoke’s first undergraduate biomedical research cohort , articleThe students studying in majors in the College of Science are part of the inaugural Integrated Health Sciences and Research Program at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Sep 22, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine’s Early Identification Program creates pathways for inclusion , articleThe program helps undergraduate students who are underrepresented in medicine gain the research and clinical skills they will need as well as an understanding of the application process for medical school.
Date: Aug 25, 2022 -
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New Fralin Biomedical Research Institute laboratory to explore genetic prelude to epilepsy , articleThe Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC recently recruited neuroscientist Matthew Weston to investigate childhood epilepsy, particularly how specific genetic variants that cause the disorder regulate brain activity.
Date: Aug 03, 2022 -
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Graduate student recognized for relentless curiosity and service , article“If you’re not out there understanding and engaging in conversation with the community, then how are you supposed to know how to best help them?” said Gabriela Carrillo, a doctoral candidate in Virginia Tech’s translational biology, medicine, and health graduate program.
Date: Jul 28, 2022 -
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Professor supports Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine students’ research projects through endowment , articleEstablished by Charles J. Schleupner, professor of internal medicine at the school and infectious disease physician at Carilion Clinic, four students at the medical school will pursue summer research fellowships.
Date: Jun 29, 2022 -
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So long, Roanoke; get ready, Denmark, for the 2024 Precision Neuroscience conference , articleResearchers, clinicians, and students from four countries recently worked side-by-side for three days in Roanoke, sharing ideas to help the nearly 1 billion people worldwide coping with brain disorders.
Date: Jun 28, 2022 -
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Students score a victory in the battle against substance use disorder in Appalachia , articleAfter an Appalachian Community Research class sparked a passion for change, four students from the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences campaigned the state government for a feasibility study to turn a local hospital into a substance use disorder treatment facility. Now it's happening.
Date: Jun 24, 2022 -
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Neuroscience’s Michael A. Fox to hold I.D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science , articleA member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2012, Fox is a nationally recognized neuroscientist and an expert on understanding how neuronal circuits form in the developing brain.
Date: Jun 22, 2022 -
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College of Science students win Beckman Scholarships for collaborative research projects , articleThree Virginia Tech students were awarded scholarships from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. They are Camille Bridgewater, double majoring in chemistry and physics; Sera Choi, a biological sciences major; and Nikki Keith, double majoring in biological sciences and clinical neuroscience.
Date: May 25, 2022
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