Cold Spring Harbor, NY —聽Associate Professor Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., of 黑料吃瓜资源 (CSHL) has received the 2014 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award from .聽 The award, which provides $100,000 per year for three years, supports innovative efforts to solve problems of neurological and psychiatric diseases, especially those related to memory and cognition.
鈥淲e are delighted that the McKnight Foundation has recognized Dr. Kepecs鈥� innovative research with a Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award and we are confident that he will make important breakthroughs in understanding complex systems involved with neuron signaling,鈥� said Anthony Zador, M.D., Ph.D., CSHL Professor and Neuroscience Program Chair.
Kepecs received the award for his work relating to the nucleus basalis (NB). NB is a vitally important but poorly understood part of the brain whose degeneration parallels the decline of cognitive functions in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s dementia and normal age-related cognitive decline. NB has also been implicated in learning and memory, but little is known about how it signals with the cortex.聽 Kepecs鈥� research combines state-of-the-art behavioral electrophysiology with quantitative psychophysics and optogenetics to determine how and when NB 聽neurons signal.聽 Kepecs hopes to identify fundamental principles of neural circuit function to develop therapeutic treatments for cognitive diseases.
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