Exploring the Brain for Keys to Solving Parkinson's Disease
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 09:50
in Biology & Nature
For more than three decades, James Tepper of Rutgers University and his colleagues have added to understanding of the brain and its innermost workings by mapping the circuitry of the brain, much as explorers on ships added methodically to long-incomplete maps of the New World, a primary reason why the National Institutes of Health awarded Tepper a five-year, $3.4 million grant to delve ever more deeply into the circuitry and function of the striatum -- in hopes of new knowledge that can lead to Parkinson's disease breakthroughs.