MIRA Funded Research

Alzheimer's

Brain Production of Copper-Binding Protein

Sinai Clinical Neuroscience Center - 2 Year Grant

Peter Lewitt, MD - David Loeffler, D.V.M., Ph.D.

 

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (adhd)

Neurofeedback Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children: A

 Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Study

Wayne State University School of Medicine

John DeLuca, Ph.D.

Autism

A PET Scan Study of Serotonin Production

Children's Hospital of Michigan - 4 Year Grant

Harry Chugani, MD - Diane Chugani, Ph.D.

 

The Autism Clinical Research Program

Children's Hospital of Michigan – 3 Year Grant

(A MIRA/Pheasant Ring Funded Project)

Harry Chugani, MD  -  Diane Chugani, Ph.D.

 

Bi-Polar Disorder

Quantification of Monoaminergic Synaptic Density in Bi-Polar Disorder, Type I and II

(In conjunction with The Arthur Forest Tull II Memorial Fund)

University of Michigan Medical Center

Jon-Kar Zubieta, MD, Ph.D.

 

Depression

Treatment Resistant Depression with PMS

Wayne State University

Alan Rosenbaum, MD

 

Reduction of Morbidity From Depression By Reversal of Brain Morphologic Changes

University of Michigan Medical Center

John F. Greden, MD

 

Geriatric Depression

Use of Depakote and Atypical Antipsychotics in Elderly Agitated Depressed Patients

Psychopharmocology Research, Inc.

Alan Rosenbaum, MD

 

Memory Loss

Quantitative Brain Anatomy and Age Associated Memory Impairment in Normal Aging 

Henry Ford Health System - 2 Year Grant

C. Edward Coffey, MD

 

Memory in Post-Menopausal Women

Wayne State University

Pamela A. Keenan, Ph.D.

 

Neurogenesis

Neurosurgical Stem Cell Research

Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Evan Snyder, MD

 

Isolation of Central Nervous System Stem Cells

University of Michigan

Sean Morrison, Ph.D.

 

 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Brain Chemistry in Treatment Refractory Pediatric - OCD

Wayne State University

David Rosenberg, MD

 

 

Schizophrenia

Presynaptic Dopamine Function in Schizophrenia

University of Michigan Medical Center

Rajiv Tandon, MD - Kirk Frey, MD, Ph.D.

 

Neurochemical Anatomy of the Thalamus

University of Michigan Medical Center

James H. Meador-Woodruff, MD

 

Regulation of NMDA Receptor Subunit Composition by PSD-95 in the Prefrontal Cortex:

 Possible Link with the NMDA Receptor Hypofunction Hypothesis of Schizophrenia

Wayne State University

Jean-Claude Beique, MD

 

Abnormalities in Polysubstance-containing Local Circuit

Cerebrocortical Neurons in Schizophrenia

University of Miami School of Medicine

Rodrigo Kuljis, MD

 

 

Substance Abuse & Addiction

HPA Axis Alteration in Opioid Dependence: 

Methadone Maintenance versus Abstinence

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Susan Stine, MD

 

 

Suicide

The Molecular Anatomy of Suicide

University of Michigan Medical Center - 2 Year Grant

Juan Lopez, MDStanley Watson, Jr., MD, Ph.D.

 

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