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WashU Medicine Neuroscience researchers part of NIH grant to study role of genes in autism (Links to an external site)
Harrison Gabel, PhD, and Hysell Oviedo, PhD, are part of a team of WashU Medicine researchers who have received an $11.85 million NIH grant to create a resource for the WashU and national research communities to study the growing number of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders known to be caused by a single gene mutation.
Research soaring with the Eagles
Jason Yi, PhD, received a $400,000 pilot grant from the Eagles Autism Foundation to advance a new approach to treating autism spectrum disorder.
New papers unveil insights into how the brain processes complex visual input
Tom Franken, MD, PhD, has recent papers published in iScience and Neuron that add new knowledge to how the brain processes complex visual input.
Publications
New study suggests V2b neurons have distinctive role in motor control
In a study published June 12 in The Journal of Neuroscience, Geoffrey Goodhill, PhD; Martha Bagnall, PhD; and lab members show how they used optogenetics in the larval zebrafish to map the connectivity and activity of V2b neurons, a major inhibitory spinal population, to receive the results.

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