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Family caregivers of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) often experience stress and mental health difficulties (e.g., anxiety, depression)

TDP-43 (transactive response DNA-binding protein 43) is one of the few genes highly associated with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a chronic psychiatric illness, ranking in the top 10 causes of disability and mortality worldwide, due to suicide and cardiovascular death.

The goal of this project is to develop new principles to treat brain disease and investigate brain function using non-invasive neurostimulation, without the side-effects of drugs.

Males are 4X more likely than females to develop Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), suggesting that the biology of sex development contributes to the risk of developing this neurodevelopmental condition.

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) the most common form of brain cancer in adults with very low survival of only 15 months with less than 5% of patients surviving more than 5 years. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation are the treatments currently used but recurrence is very common, often with tumors that are resistant to treatment.

Many youth suffer from mental health-related brain disorders which can have devastating consequences Effective treatment is desperately needed.

Most brain disorders remain incurable, whether they begin during early development, as seen in Autism, or seem acquired over time, as observed in Alzheimer’s disease.

Slow oscillations (SOs) measured using electroencephalography (EEG) are a common feature of states with little to no conscious experience, such as coma, sleep, and anesthesia.

Despite the recent advances in our understanding between the connection between the microbes living in the gut and our mental health, there remains a wide knowledge gap in understanding how the brain is negatively impacted in disorders with inflammation of the gut.