Various research programs are conducted by many lab groups and centers within the Krasnow Institute. Krasnow investigators seek to provide the research bases that may lead to cures to some of the most devastating brain diseases. Adaptive Systems Laboratory Human brains do many tasks much better than the fastest silicon computers–even with much slower components. [...]
Biologically Based Therapies
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The present classification of psychiatric disorders is ill-defined, offering poor guidelines for the treatment of the ambulatory and the severe mentally ill. One form of depressive illness, described for millennia as melancholia, has defined criteria and effective treatments. In modern practice, melancholia is separated from the amorphous concepts of major depression, bipolar disorder, and other [...]

Proteomics After the completion of the human genome project, many scientists realized the next big target would be the human proteome. As genes ultimately encode cellular proteins, the purpose and ultimate destination of proteins in cells is technically encoded as well. However, in practice, the ability to determine the structure, let alone function, of a [...]

Dark therapy is an experimental treatment which involves eliminating all light in the subject’s environment, for a period of six to sixteen hours per day, in combination with a regular sleep schedule. Dark therapy manipulates circadian rhythms acting on hormones and neurotransmitters. It has been proposed recently (2005) to combine the chronobiological manipulations of light/dark [...]

Some alternative medicine proponents claim that serratiopeptidase is beneficial for pain and inflammation but there is no compelling evidence. Online medical journal Bandolier (specializing in ”Evidence-based thinking about healthcare”) published an article (in about 2001) in response to a reader’s enquiry about serratiopeptidase. After searching PubMed and the Cochrane Library “to see if there are [...]







