The UCSF team of IMHRO Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Vikaas Sohal, M.D., Ph.D., strikes again! Today, Neuron has published Dr. Sohal’s team’s article (lead author: Kathleen K.A. Cho, Ph.D.) revealing evidence that normalizing electrical oscillations in specific neurons in a mouse model of schizophrenia from the lab of John L. R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D., reverses the mice’s cognitive deficits in a lasting way. This paper is a product of the exciting research presented in Dr. Sohal’s talk at the 20th Music Festival for Brain Health. This discovery suggests promise for new treatment approaches to remedy schizophrenia’s cognitive symptoms, perhaps using benzodiazepine medications or, as Dr. Sohal speculates, meditation combined with biofeedback. This research was accomplished thanks in large part to funding from One Mind donors.

Read UCSF’s excellent official press release

Read the abstract and watch the video abstract