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Learning Not to Fear: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Improves Fear Extinction

Gunes Sevinc, PhD Gunes Sevinc, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Sara Lazar, PhD, in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her poster recently won an awar
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Looking for Insights into Mucolipidosis IV

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Amanda Furness, PhD Amanda Furness, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her poster, Therapeutic insight into Mucolipidosis IV v
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New Imaging Protocol Could Vastly Accelerate Clinical Trials for New ALS Treatments

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Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a new technique for imaging the brains of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that could vastly reduce the cost and time need
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How New Biomarkers and Smartphone Apps Could Provide New Hope for ALS Patients

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James Berry, a researcher in the Neurological Clinical Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, is working to build tools and identify biomarkers to improve clinical trial methodology. Hi
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Can Studying a Rare Inherited Form of ALS Lead to Earlier Diagnosis and New Treatments?

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Katharine Nicholson, MD Hereditary forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may only account for 10 percent of all ALS cases, but the insights that researchers gain from studying this small popula
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Online Platform Accelerates Rare Disease Research

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Earlier this week, the Mass General Neurological Clinical Research Center (NCRI)’s NeuroBANK™ won Bio-IT World‘s Best Practice award in the Personalized & Translational Medicine categ
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Paganoni Advances ALS Research and Care with Technology

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Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD Technological advancements have revolutionized nearly every field of medicine from orthopedics to genetic testing. Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD, a clinician and researcher in th
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Mass General Investigators on the Cutting Edge of ALS Research

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Neurological Clinical Research Institute team May is ALS Awareness Month, intended as a time to raise awareness of and foster research for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig
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Genetic Insights, New Research Models Help to Drive New Rare Disease Research

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Florian Eichler, MD While it may not have been called rare disease research by name, Massachusetts General Hospital has been identifying and tracking rare diseases for more than a century, says Floria
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Multiple Sclerosis Treatments are Advancing, But There is Still More Work To Be Done

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Farrah Mateen, MD, PhD Multiple sclerosis (MS) is not your average neurological disorder. For one thing, it tends to strike patients at a much younger age than most cases of Alzheimer’s disease or Par
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Could the Secret to a Good Night’s Sleep Be Found in Our Genes?

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It’s the night before a big meeting at work—or a race you’ve been training months for—and you want to do everything you can to get the next day off to a great start. How much sleep do you need to be a
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Martinos Center Researcher Receives Award to Explore Anesthesia and Sleep

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The Society for Neuroscience recently named Mass General researcher Laura Lewis, PhD, a recipient of the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award.
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