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Dec 27th, 2016

12/27/2016

 

Using Teeth to Reconstruct how the Brain Develops

Two Mount Sinai researchers from different backgrounds joined forces to reconstruct critical periods of brain plasticity using teeth as a biologic hard drive. Manish Arora, BDS, MPH, PhD, Director of Exposure Biology at the Lautenberg Lab and Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD, from the Department of Psychiatry collaborated on a concept piece, “Tooth-Matrix Biomarkers to Reconstruct Critical Periods of Brain Plasticity” published in Trends in Neurosciences. Also check out this short videoclip.
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Nov  22nd, 2016

12/27/2016

 
Milo Smith, a PhD candidate in Morishita lab and Dudley lab was selected to a talk at 4th Mindich Child Health and Development Institute Retreat, where he presented his latest findings titled "Integrative analysis of disease signatures shows inflammation disrupts juvenile experience-dependent cortical plasticity" now publsihed in eNeuro. 
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By appliying  a systematic computational screen of hundreds of diseases for their impact on neuroplasticity, we found that inflammation disrupts plasticity in mice. This work suggests that inflammation during the childhood could have unrecognized negative consequences on the neurodevelopmental trajectory. This study is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between the bioinformatics lab of Joel Dudley and neuroplasticity lab of Hirofumi Morishita at Mount Sinai. 
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Nov 14th, 2016

12/27/2016

 

"Silencing select brain cells triggers social deficits in mice"

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 Nov. 14, 2016 SpectrumNews.org (by Ann Griswold) features Morisita lab's work in collaboration with Schahram Akbarian lab presented by our graduate student Lucy Bicks at the 2016 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego. In this study we investigate the link between the specific cellular deficits and social behaviors in mice. Also check out our recent review on social cognition and prefrontal cortex by Bicks et al. 

Oct 2016

10/1/2016

 
Congratulations to our MDPhD student Elisa Nabel who was awarded a NRSA individual predoctoral fellowship from NIH!

Oct 2015

10/27/2015

 
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Hiro was honored to receive an Inaugural Faculty Innovative Collaborations-Idea Prize together with our collaborator Dr. Arora Manish. ​The Faculty Idea Prize is designed to highlight a collaborative, innovative, research idea by young investigators that can potentially be translated into a marketable product. The results of the collaborative project idea should go beyond what is possible through individual PI-driven research, and should enable launching of a multidisciplinary project that can create value through the development of therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, or digital health applications

July 2015

7/27/2015

 
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Hiro was honored to be a workshop member of the Lasker/IRRF initiative for Innovation in Vision Science on Amblyopia held at Woods Hole.  

June 2015

7/8/2015

 
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Congratulations to our postoc Mari Sajo who was awarded the 2015 - 2016 Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career-starter research grant for her research titled "Novel strategy to discover the drugs for Amblyopia".

Nov 05th, 2013

11/5/2013

 
Making an Old Brain More Plastic

Collaborative drug repurposing project with Joel Dudley Lab, featured in Mt. Sinai blog, was awarded for the Mindich Child Health & Development Institute pilot grant!

April 26th, 2013

5/15/2013

 
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Congrats to Mike Demars for receiving the Best Poster Award at Friedman Brain Institute Retreat !!


Feb 8th, 2013

4/28/2013

 
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Morishita lab moved to the new Hess Center for Science and Medicine!

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