TEST Friedman Brain Institute

Recent newsletters from The Friedman Brain Institute explore Icahn Mount Sinai’s evolving neuroscience research on social neuroscience, schizophrenia, brain-body connections, G protein-coupled receptors, and brain cancer, reflecting The Friedman Brain Institute's growth into new areas while continuing to build on existing strengths.

Spring 2024

The Spring 2024 issue: The neuroscience community at Mount Sinai continues to thrive. Our highly innovative and uniquely cross-disciplinary research programs are revealing novel insights into the causes of brain and nervous system disorders and uncovering new paths for therapeutic discovery.

Fall 2023

The Fall 2023 issue: Fifteen Years Later, There Is Much to Celebrate at The Friedman Brain Institute.

Spring 2023

The Spring 2023 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights one novel area of research: social neuroscience. Work over the past decade has demonstrated the importance of social experience in shaping the brain and the ways in which different types of social interaction —both positive and negative—exert long-lived effects on the brain’s structure and function.

Fall 2022

This Fall 2022 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on schizophrenia. Schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders are among the top 10 causes of disability worldwide, yet the diagnosis and treatment of these illnesses have changed little since I was a resident in psychiatry more than three decades ago.

Spring 2022

The Spring 2022 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights current efforts focused around a class of proteins known as G protein-coupled receptors. They transduce the signals for most types of neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, growth factors, cytokines, and other stimuli.

Fall 2021

The Fall 2021 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights our efforts in brain cancer, which remains one of the most-deadly forms of cancer, with few improvements in treatment seen over the past several decades.

Spring 2021

The Spring 2021 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights many of our accomplishments, including groundbreaking research on bidirectional interactions between the brain and body. While we have long been aware of such interactions, new work has provided unparalleled insight into the mechanisms by which peripheral organs signal to the brain.

Our newsletters from 2016-2020 highlight Icahn Mount Sinai’s continued growth in neuroscience research, centers, and faculty specializing in areas like neuroimaging, autism, epilepsy, neurocircuitry, and the genetic and epigenetic bases of brain disorders.

Fall 2020

In the Fall 2020 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter, we examine the inner workings of the living human brain through a unique research study of 500 men and women.

Spring 2020

The Spring 2020 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter features a new kind of intensive care unit telemetry for the brain, using deep learning as part of its mission to re-imagine the most basic aspect of the clinical neurosciences.

Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on the laboratory of Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, who is developing neuroscience-inspired techniques in which specialized molecular probes that emit light in response to neurotransmission are inserted into hepatic and pancreatic cells.

Spring 2019

The Spring 2019 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, celebrating 25 years in progress in the fields of autism research, diagnosis, and treatment.

Fall 2018

The Fall 2018 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on the Advanced Neuroimaging Research Program, the Center for Affective Neuroscience, and other research centers and programs aiming for bold new discoveries.

Spring 2018

The Spring 2018 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights the creation of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics at Icahn Mount Sinai, which is led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD.

Fall 2017

The Fall 2017 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter covers epilepsy and describes a collection of neurological disorders that are characterized by episodes of excessive brain activity manifesting as seizures.

Spring 2017

This Spring 2017 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on the importance of a sustained investment in basic, fundamental neuroscience in advancing our understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of brain diseases.

Fall 2016

The Fall 2016 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights the new strategic plan for the Institute and features the work of Paul Kenny, PhD, and Joshua B. Bederson, MD.

Spring 2016

The Spring 2016 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights the recent efforts in PyschENCODE, a national effort to define the epigenomic basis of psychiatric disorders.

Kicking off the first newsletters from The Friedman Brain Institute, we explore five years of growth in neuroscience research, faculty, centers, and facilities focused on Alzheimer's disease, movement disorders, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, brain imaging, and other areas of neuroscience.

Fall 2015

The Fall 2015 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter introduces Barbara G. Vickrey, MD, MPH, as the then Chair of the Department of Neurology, and features the upcoming Center for Addictive Disorders (now the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai).

Spring 2015

The Spring 2015 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on the continued efforts led by Icahn Mount Sinai in studying Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias with the Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease.

Fall 2014

The Fall 2014 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on a complementary research approach—the ability to induce neurons and glial cells from a patient's skin biopsy or blood.

Spring 2014

The Spring 2014 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights two developments that greatly enhanced the neurosciences at Icahn Mount Sinai: the creation of an advanced brain imaging program and the establishment of the Mount Sinai Health System.

Fall 2013

The Fall 2013 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter showcases five junior faculty who were recruited to The Friedman Brain Institute, who exemplified the dramatic expansion in scope and depth, and exciting translational potential, of our neuroscience research programs.

Spring 2013

The Spring 2013 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights two senior faculty who had joined The Friedman Brain Institute as part of the major expansion in the neuroscience community at Icahn Mount Sinai, made possible by the opening of the Hess Center for Science and Medicine in December 2012.

Fall 2012

The Fall 2012 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter reviews Icahn Mount Sinai's many exciting programs that were underway in the research and clinical care of movement disorders, important progress which continued our distinguished history in this area of neuroscience.

Spring 2012

The Spring 2012 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter highlights the work of two of our leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience and brain aging, and outlines exciting initiatives that paved the way toward clinical advances for a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Fall 2011

The Fall 2011 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on epigenetic research. Epigenetics describes an exciting field of study that examines the complex molecular mechanisms controlling gene expression in the nervous system that seems to play an important role in several brain disorders.

Spring 2011

The Spring 2011 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter focuses on two areas of exciting research at Icahn Mount Sinai, one focused on the analysis of individual synapses in brain and their deterioration in models of Alzheimer’s disease. The other area is focused on the genetics of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism.

Fall 2010

The Fall 2010 issue of The Friedman Brain Institute Newsletter introduces the organization, its structure, presents new research findings related to Alzheimer’s disease and to cognition, and highlights a history of research breakthroughs in the neurosciences at Icahn Mount Sinai.