Stories in this category

• Psychiatric disorders linked to a protein involved in the formation of long-term memories

  Published May 20, 2013 at noon

  Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists discover a protein that regulates synaptic ion channels that have been tied to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

• Turning Alzheimer’s fuzzy analog signals into high definition

  Published May 13, 2013 at midnight

  Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have discovered how the predominant class of Alzheimer’s pharmaceuticals might sharpen the brain’s performance.

• Scientists image nanoparticles in action

  Published April 25, 2013 at midnight

  Thanks to a technique developed at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, scientists can observe the actions of the smallest tools made by humans - gold nanoparticles - in a ...

• Konark Mukherjee’s work on CASK garners attention in recent Science article

  Published April 15, 2013 at 1:40 p.m.

  Experimental results obtained in the laboratory of Konark Mukherjee, an assistant professor at VTC Research Institute, were recently mentioned in the journal Science.

• The subtle hallmarks of psychiatric illness can reveal themselves even remotely

  Published April 9, 2013 at midnight

  Most people are so attuned to the nuances of social interaction that they can detect clues to mental illness while playing a strategy game with someone they have never met.

• Konark Mukherjee presents evidence that molecules believed to be benign have an active, important role in neurogenesis

  Published April 8, 2013 at midnight

  Konark Mukherjee presents evidence that molecules believed to be benign have an active, important role in neurogenesis.

• Kirk and Spock joined at the hip: the feeling of computing

  Published Feb. 15, 2013 at 4 p.m.

  Kirk and Spock may not need a Vulcan mind meld to share cognition: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have found that our cold reasoning and hot feelings may be ...

• A nanoscale window to the biological world

  Published Dec. 20, 2012 at midnight

  Investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have invented a way to directly image biological structures at their most fundamental level and in their natural habitats. The technique is ...

• Fingers on the pulse: Neuroscientists prove ultrasound can be tweaked to stimulate different sensations

  Published Dec. 6, 2012 at noon

  Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists found that ultrasound applied to the periphery, such as the fingertips, can stimulate different sensory pathways leading to the brain. Their discovery carries implications ...

• Read Montague introduced an idea worth spreading at TEDGlobal 2012

  Published June 28, 2012 at 5 p.m.

  During the TEDGlobal 2012 conference, Read Montague introduced an idea worth spreading: state-of-the-art computational approaches can enhance the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses.

• Suspicion resides in two regions of the brain

  Published May 16, 2012 at 1:11 p.m.

  Our suspicious minds have two distinct areas of activity: the amygdala, which correlates strongly with a baseline distrustfulness, and the parahippocampal gyrus, which acts like a cerebral lie detector.

• New technology allows scientists to watch cancer cells in action at unprecedented resolution

  Published Feb. 1, 2012 at 9:29 a.m.

  Researchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have developed a novel technology platform to peer closely into the world of cells and molecules within a native, liquid environment.

• Group settings can diminish expressions of intelligence, especially among women

  Published Jan. 22, 2012 at 7 p.m.

  Research led by scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute found that small-group dynamics -- such as jury deliberations, collective bargaining sessions, and cocktail parties -- can alter the ...

• Benefits of high-quality child care persist 30 years later

  Published Jan. 19, 2012 at 11:07 a.m.

  Adults who participated in a high-quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefiting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to the latest results ...

• A molecule that can recognize viruses and tumors also boosts learning and memory

  Published Dec. 22, 2011 at 4 p.m.

  A molecule that can sense viruses and tumors in the body has another, surprising function in the brain—to enable the biological imprint of experiences during the learning process.

• Brain imaging research reveals that physicians learn more by paying attention to failure

  Published Nov. 23, 2011 at 5 p.m.

  Research led by Read Montague, director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory and the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, reinforces the age-old idea that it’s important ...

• Dopamine release in the human brain tracked in milliseconds reveals decision-making

  Published Oct. 27, 2011 at 5:01 p.m.

  A research team led by investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute has demonstrated the first rapid measurements of dopamine release in a human brain and provided preliminary evidence ...

• Neuroscientists produce a guide for using ultrasound to treat brain disorders in clinical emergencies

  Published Sept. 14, 2011 at 8:34 a.m.

  The discovery that low-intensity, pulsed ultrasound can be used to noninvasively stimulate intact brain circuits holds promise for engineering rapid-response medical devices.

• Cocaine addicts prefer money in hand to snowy future

  Published Aug. 15, 2011 at 9:28 a.m.

  When a research team asked cocaine addicts to choose, hypothetically, between money now or cocaine of greater value later, "preference was almost exclusively for the money now," said Warren K., ...

• Addiction researcher optimistic about new smoking warnings

  Published June 23, 2011 at 1:53 p.m.

  By presenting the concrete reality of what will happen as a result of smoking, the new anti-smoking warnings that will show up on packs of cigarettes next year have a ...

• Expertise provides buffer against bias in making judgments

  Published June 7, 2011 at 8:31 a.m.

  Gratuities, gifts, free samples, and favors can all influence judgment and decision-making. When people are influenced in their choice of cereal, the result is a bit of income for the ...

• Functional MRI shows how mindfulness meditation changes decision-making process

  Published April 21, 2011 at 2:12 p.m.

  If a friend or relative won $100 and then offered you a few dollars, would you accept this windfall?

• Brain scientists offer medical educators tips on the neurobiology of learning

  Published March 31, 2011 at 11:32 a.m.

  Everyone would like MDs to have the best education – and to absorb what they are taught. The lead article in the April 4 issue of the journal Academic Medicine ...

• Ramey study on early childhood education cited in USA Today editorial

  Jan. 24, 2011,
  5:31 p.m.

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• Alexei Morozov, PhD

  By , published May 16, 2013 at 4:06 p.m.

  Alexei Morozov, PhD

• Rosalyn Moran, PhD

  By , published May 16, 2013 at 4:02 p.m.

  Rosalyn Moran, PhD

• Alexei Morozov, PhD

  By , published May 2, 2013 at 3:23 p.m.

  Alexei Morozov, PhD

• Deborah Kelly

  By Jim Stroup/Virginia Tech, published April 25, 2013 at 12:12 p.m.

  Deborah Kelly, PhD

• Borderline personality disorder

  By Anna Bryukhanova/iStockphoto, published April 9, 2013 at midnight

  Healthy study subjects playing an anonymous online game with people with borderline personality disorder were able to detect the erratic behavior that characterizes the disorder.

• Borderline personality disorder

  By Anna Bryukhanova/iStockphoto, published March 26, 2013 at midnight

  Healthy study subjects playing an anonymous online game with people with borderline personality disorder were able to detect the erratic behavior that characterizes the disorder.

• Kirk and Spock

  By , published March 15, 2013 at 9:25 a.m.

  Kirk and Spock

• Rotavirus double-layered particles imaged in solution

  By , published Dec. 19, 2012 at 2:19 p.m.

  A novel microfluidics platform allowed viewing of structural details of rotavirus double-layered particles; the 3-D graphic of the virus, in purple, was reconstructed from data gathered by the new technique.

• Ultrasound activation of sensory pathways leading to the brain

  By , published Dec. 6, 2012 at noon

  Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists used brain-monitoring technologies to prove what scientists have long suspected: ultrasound can stimulate different sensory pathways leading to the brain. These functional magnetic resonance ...

• Sarah McDonald

  By Patrick Beeson, published July 20, 2012 at 4:53 p.m.

  Sarah McDonald studies rotavirus, which kills more than 500,000 children in the developing world each year.

• Roanoke Brain Study

  By Jim Stroup/Virginia Tech, published July 2, 2012 at 10:37 a.m.

  Read Montague (right), director of the Roanoke Brain Study, stands near one of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute's three research-dedicated MRI scanners. With him are Jae Shin, a software ...

• Affinity Capture Device

  By , published Feb. 1, 2012 at 9:23 a.m.

  Affinity capture devices produced on commercial silicon nitride microchips (a) contain viewing windows (b) that allow an electron microscope beam to penetrate to the specimen level. Devices can be functionalized ...

• Pencils

  By , published Jan. 22, 2012 at 3:55 p.m.

  Pencils

• Craig Ramey

  By , published Jan. 22, 2012 at 3:33 p.m.

  Craig Ramey, PhD, launched the Abecedarian Project in 1972 to understand the long-term effects of early education on the cognitive and social development of children.

• Craig Ramey

  By Jim Stroup/Virginia Tech, published Jan. 22, 2012 at 2:45 p.m.

  Craig Ramey, PhD, launched the Abecedarian Project in 1972 to understand the long-term effects of early education on the cognitive and social development of children.

• Hodja Kalikulov

  By Jim Stroup/Virginia Tech, published Dec. 21, 2011 at 9:21 a.m.

  Hodja Kalikulov is a research assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

• Read Montague

  By Virginia Tech, published Nov. 23, 2011 at 12:30 p.m.

  Read Montague, PhD, directs the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

• Read Montague

  By Virginia Tech, published Oct. 28, 2011 at 8:29 a.m.

  Read Montague, PhD

• Jamie Tyler

  By Jim Stroup, published Sept. 14, 2011 at 8:36 a.m.

  William "Jamie" Tyler is an assistant professor with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. He studies fundamental properties of synaptic transmission, how these properties are modified by experience, and how ...

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• Changing Fear

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• New Imaging Approaches for Cardiac Structure and Function

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• Understanding Biological Systems: Mission Impossible?

  April 17, 2013,
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• Nanoparticles in action

  By , published April 11, 2013 at

  Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have imaged, for the first time, nanoparticles in action in a liquid environment.