Mental Health Research Gets an Upgrade

Published by nocamels.com on April 8, 2024.

An Israeli professor is among 10 international recipients of an award for innovative neurobiological and behavioral research.

Prof. Dorit Ben-Shachar from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is one of the 10 senior-level scientists to equally share the grant of $1 million from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF).

Ben-Shachar aims to target mitochondria (the producers of energy within a cell) with a treatment that can help with biological and behavioral problems in schizophrenia. If successful, it can offer a better understanding of the role of mitochondria in schizophrenia, and potentially a new way of treating the condition.

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