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12 Days of Research at Mass General: Why Autistic Individuals Avoid Eye Contact

By mghresearch | Events, Neurology | 0 comment | 17 December, 2017 | 0

In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017. June 2017: More Than Meets the Eye: Researchers Find Eye Contact Causes Stress and Overactivation in the Brains of Autistic Individuals TheyRead more

12 Days of Research at Mass General: Do Alzheimer’s Patients Suffer Silent Seizures?

By mghresearch | Alzheimer's Disease, Events, Neurology | 0 comment | 16 December, 2017 | 0

In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.

12 Days of Research at Mass General: Aspirin and Risk of Cancer Death

By mghresearch | Cancer, Events | 0 comment | 15 December, 2017 | 0

In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.

12 Days of Research at Mass General: Lack of Sleep Can Impact Childhood Behavior

By mghresearch | Events, Pediatrics, Sleep Disorders | 0 comment | 14 December, 2017 | 0

In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.

12 Days of Research at Mass General: Autism and the Blood-Brain Barrier

By mghresearch | Autism Spectrum Disorders, Events, Five Things to Know, Gastroenterology | 0 comment | 13 December, 2017 | 0

In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.

12 Days of Research at Mass General: She Watches Worms While They Sleep

By mghresearch | Events, Neurology, Researcher Profiles, Sleep Disorders | 0 comment | 12 December, 2017 | 0

In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.

Jennifer Gatchel studying Alzheimer's disease

Gatchel Untangles the Causes of Mood and Anxiety Symptoms and Loss of Brain Function in Aging Populations

By mghresearch | Alzheimer's Disease, Depression, Neurology, Psychiatry | 4 comments | 11 December, 2017 | 0

Mass General geriatric psychiatrist Jennifer Gatchel MD, PhD, is working to unravel the connections between mental illness and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer's disease crumbling brain

Study Predicts Alzheimer’s Cases to Double in US by 2060. How Mass General Researchers are Fighting Back.

By mghresearch | Alzheimer's Disease, Neurology, Population Health & Outcomes | 1 comment | 8 December, 2017 | 0

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released some unsettling new estimates about the number of individuals affected with Alzheimer’s disease this week—and how that number is expected to skyrocket in the near future.

Proteins Take Shape with New Technology

By mghresearch | Technology | 0 comment | 6 December, 2017 | 0

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists for their development of a new technology called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). This technique freezes proteins, and bombards them with electrons, allowing researchers to observe the building blocks of human cells. In a recent podcast by Proto, Luke Chao, PhD, a researcher in the department of molecularRead more

Four Mass General Investigators Recognized with Endowed Chairs

By mghresearch | Awards & Honors | 0 comment | 4 December, 2017 | 0

Massachusetts General Hospital recently established four endowed chairs. Meet the investigators whose work and contributions have been recognized through their appointment to these roles and please join us in congratulating them!

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