November 30, 2011
Publication: Harvard Gazette
Featured Expert: Takao Hensch
Link: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/neurons-in-youth/
Center-affiliated faculty member Takao Hensch, a professor of neurology at Children’s Hospital Boston, is leading a group of Harvard researchers in an effort to map how brain wiring occurs early in life and what happens when it goes awry. Research by Hensch, who is also a professor of molecular and cellular biology, looks into how genetic alterations can affect this wiring and may one day lead to new therapies for disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.