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24-Oct-2025

Boston Children’s Hospital receives $8.1M to expand research for hereditary spastic paraplegia

Boston Children's Hospital
Grant and Award Announcement

Boston Children’s Hospital has received $8.1M in NIH funding to support and expand the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN). Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Movement Disorders Program at Boston Children’s, and his team will lead this multi-center effort.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

24-Oct-2025

New research uncovers how the brain’s activity, energy use, and blood flow change as people fall asleep

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham used next-generation imaging technology to discover that when the brain is falling asleep, it shows a coordinated shift in activity.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Harvard Mind Brain Behavior Faculty Research Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant, BrightFocus Foundation Research Grant, MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, NIH Shared Instrumentation Grants, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

23-Oct-2025

Teenagers and young adults who use cannabis have a higher risk of progressing to regular tobacco use

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Teens and young adults who use cannabis are more likely to become regular tobacco users – even if they haven’t previously tried tobacco – compared to similar people who do not use cannabis, suggests a US study published online in the journal Tobacco Control.

Journal: Tobacco Control
Funder: Tobacco- Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), NIH/National Cancer Institute

23-Oct-2025

Psilocybin plus mindfulness shows promise for healthcare worker depression

University of Utah Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly half (46%) of healthcare workers who received psilocybin and meditation techniques were free of depression at 2 weeks, compared to just 8% who only did meditation.

Journal: PLOS Medicine
Funder: Heffter Research Institute, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

23-Oct-2025

New center aims to make the future of trauma survivors brighter

Medical University of South Carolina
Grant and Award Announcement

The Medical University of South Carolina has been awarded more than $11 million in federal funding to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) to build resilience after trauma. The South Carolina Building Resilience through Innovative Interventions to promote Growth and Health after Trauma COBRE (the BRIGHT Center) will establish research cores in digital health, community-engaged research and implementation science to support and maximize the impact of traumatic stress research, with an emphasis on supporting early-career trauma investigators.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences