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Leading Neuroscientist Yan Wins Stockton Kimball Award - Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences - University at Buffalo (UB News, June 2023)

How a top-ranking risk gene for autism spectrum disorder causes seizures (UB News, Nov. 2021)

Study: Adolescents respond to chronic social isolation stress in sex-specific ways (UB News, March 2021)

Study: Memory deficits resulting from epigenetic changes in Alzheimer's disease can be reversed (UB News, Dec. 2020)

Study Details New Drug Discovery Protocol for Autism (UB Medical School News, Oct. 2020)

It may be possible to reverse memory loss caused by Alzheimer's (New York Post, Jan. 2019)

Dementia patients'memories could be RESTORED with injection to suppress certain enzymes, study on mice suggests (England′s Daily Mail, Jan. 2019), (Science Media Centre)

Alzheimer's disease: It may be possible to restore memory function, preclinical study finds (UB News Center, Jan. 2019) (EurekAlert!/AAAS)

Autism's social deficits are reversed by an anti-cancer drug (UB News Center, March 2018) (England's Daily Mail) (MedicalXPress) (Innovation Toronto)

This Common Cancer Drug Could Help Fight Autism's Social Challenges (Science Alert, March 2018) (Medical News Today) (Pharmaceutical-Technology) (New Atlas)

UB research on advanced Alzheimer's disease investigates novel ways to restore cognitive function (UB News Center, June 2017)

Researchers unravel a link between a genetic mutation and autistic behaviors - and then find a way to undo it (UB News Center, May 2015) (Bioscience Technology) (Science Daily) (Drug Discovery and Development)

Cell skeleton breakdown may spur autism symptoms in mice (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, June 2015)

Autism 'Reversed' When Cellular Damage Caused By A Genetic Mutation Is Undone In Mice: Study (Medical Daily, May 2015)

Females respond better to stress, thanks to estrogen, study says (Los Angeles Times, July 2013)

New NARSAD Grantee Study: Why Women Respond Better to Stress (Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, formerly NARSAD, July 2013)

Why do females respond better to stress? Estrogen in the brain (UB Reporter, July 2013)

Why women cope better with stress than men: Oestrogen helps to block negative effects on the brain (England's Daily Mail, July 2013)

Women Handle Stress Better? Estrogen May Be Why, New Study Suggests (Huffington Post, July 2013)

How to Prevent Recurrent Stress from Damaging the Brain (Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, June 2012)

Chronic Stress Affects Cognitive Ability, but How? (TopNews United States, March 2012)

Teen stress may have deep impact (ABC Science, March 2012)

What does chronic stress in adolescence mean at the molecular level? (Medicalxpress, March 2012)

Chronic Stress In Adolescence (Medical News Today, March 2012)

Chronic Stress in Youth Impairs Memory, May Cause Mental Illness (UB Reporter, March 2012)

Short Stressful Events May Improve Working Memory (ScienceDaily, July 2009)

How Stress Messes With Your Memory (Women's Health, MSNBC.COM, Oct. 2010)

Stress Less, Accomplish More (Good Housekeeping, May 2010)

Molecular Neuroscience: Right time, right place (Nature Review Neuroscience, March 2009)

Microtubules critical to development of mental disorders (UB Reporter, Oct. 2005)

Alzheimer's "middleman" found (UB Reporter, Dec. 2004)