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

  May 20, 2013

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

• William “Jamie” Tyler receives innovation award

  May 17, 2013

  William “Jamie” Tyler, an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, recently received the 2013 Innovation Award from the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council. Tyler was honored for pioneering a ...

• Beating to a different flow

  May 15, 2013

  Rengasayee “Sai” Veeraraghavan, a postdoctoral associate at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently awarded a Heart Rhythm Society Research Fellowship. The fellowship is given to a half-dozen emerging ...

• Fox's neurons firing on all cylinders

  May 15, 2013

  A Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute faculty member earns recognition for an outstanding early career and a promising future.

• Turning Alzheimer’s fuzzy analog signals into high definition

  May 13, 2013

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

• A focus on understanding the human brain

  April 30, 2013

  At the recent annual Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine meeting, Michael Friedlander, president of the society and executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, served as the ...

• Scientists image nanoparticles in action

  April 25, 2013

  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 ...

• Innovations in the direct study of human brain function in health and disease to be presented

  April 18, 2013

  Read Montague, director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, will present new approaches to measuring dopamine signals in the human brain at the Society ...

• Taking fright: Elizabeth Phelps to discuss how fear can be diminished

  April 17, 2013

  Fear—once acquired—can be diminished. That will be a central tenet of a public lecture that Elizabeth Phelps, the Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, will ...

• Michael Friedlander delivered a grand rounds on the neuroscience of effective learning

  April 16, 2013

  Michael Friedlander, executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, delivered a grand rounds presentation on the neuroscience of effective learning to faculty, residents, and medical students in the ...

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

  April 15, 2013

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

• Read Montague to deliver the annual Mike McKay Lecture on the Mind

  April 10, 2013

  Read Montague, director of the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, will deliver Randolph-Macon College’s Annual Mike McKay Lecture on the Mind on April 11. His ...

• VTC Research Institute to host TEDMED Live

  April 10, 2013

  TEDMED, dubbed a cerebral Cirque du Soleil, asks leaders in a range of fields to lend their creativity to medicine. Join the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in viewing these ...

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

  April 9, 2013

  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.

• Read Montague participates in workshop focused on speeding therapies for neurological disorders

  April 8, 2013

  Read Montague, a professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, has been selected to participate in an Institute of Medicine workshop focused on accelerating the development of therapies for ...

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