Neuroscience Program
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There are significant concerns about the reproducibility of scientific results across many fields including neuroimaging. This talk will discuss the source of these problems and outline a set of approaches to improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging research.
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The last few years has seen rapid progress in the discovery of genes underlying risk for severe mental illness, Research in the Ament lab aims to trace mechanisms from genes to brain to mental illness through human genetics, stem cell models of brain development, and single-cell genomics.
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There has been a surge in technologies to observe how genes and proteins change in the brain during disease. I will describe a new method, DART (drugs acutely restricted by tethering), to rapidly restrict drugs to genetically defined neurons in behaving mice. The approach offers a new way to establish causal circuit and molecular substrates of normal and aberrant behavior.