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An international team led by investigators at McLean Hospital analyzed the genes expressed in approximately 575,000 individual cells from the brains of people with and without post-traumatic stress and major depressive disorders (PTSD and MDD), revealing new insights into the mechanisms behind the...

Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, MD, PhD , director of the Neurogenomics and Translational Bioinformatics Laboratory at McLean Hospital, is part of an international research collaboration that has been awarded a $1.14 million grant from the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). Highlights An...

Fear and fear extinction learning (the gradual reduction of fear by repeated exposure to the feared object) are adaptive processes caused by molecular changes in specific brain circuits, and they’re perturbed in conditions such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder . A new study by...

Results from a new study suggest that whether certain genes are expressed—turned on or off—may play a role in susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study, which was conducted by an international team led by investigators at McLean Hospital and appears in the journal Cell...

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