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Baylor and Texas Children’s team presents major advances in treating OCD at a Congressional briefing

07/25/2023

A team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital recently made groundbreaking advances in treating patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

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The Cain Foundation Labs for Pediatric Neurology Research welcomes two faculty members

06/01/2023

The Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories at Texas Children’s Hospital is pleased to announce the addition of two faculty members - Dr. Hsiao Tuan Chao and Dr. Xiaolong Jiang - both of whom are assistant professors at Baylor College of Medicine and investigators at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital.

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The clinical presentation of IDDMSSD syndrome is likely associated with the molecular location of the mutation in the PAK1 gene

03/16/2023

A recent study from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine has expanded the clinical spectrum of a new epileptic disorder called Intellectual Developmental Disorder with Macrocephaly, Seizures, and Speech Delay (IDDMSSD) with the identification of the first recurrently affected residue identified in the protein kinase domain of PAK1 protein.

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Progress in unlocking the brain's "code" for depression

03/16/2023

A new study in the journal Biological Psychiatry published by Elsevier advances our understanding of the basic neural circuitry of depression in the human brain. The study was led by the Cain Labs director who is also a professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Duncan NRI investigator, Dr. Sameer Sheth, Dr. Wayne Goodman at Baylor College, and Dr. Nader Pouratian at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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A comprehensive circuit mapping study reveals many unexpected facts about the norepinephrine neurons in the brainstem

03/13/2023

A recent pioneering study published in eLife from the laboratory of Dr. Xiaolong Jiang, investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, has revealed the cellular composition and circuit organization of the locus coeruleus in adult mice.

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