Inna Gaisler-Salomon Lab

מה הסיכוי שהסטטיסטיקה תהרוג אתכם?
What are the odds that statistics can get you killed?

האם אפשר לסמוך על סטטיסטיקה? | רן לוי | עושים היסטוריה הפעם ננסה לפענח את הסיבה שבגללה סטטיסטיקה – ואחותה, ההסתברות – זוכות לשם רע כל כך. האם סטטיסטיקאים הם באמת… שקרנים? על חוק בנפורד ואפקט המגירה.

Newest publication from our lab... On the effects of social isolation in adolescence.
http://communications.elsevier.com/r/?id=h2ed353d2,feee673,feef069&p1=www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432816305897

Differential effects of social isolation in adolescent and adult mice on behavior and cortical gene expression A wide range of psychopathology-related behaviors and expression of excitatory, inhibitory and myelin-related markers in mPFC were analyzed.

Some sad data on mental health funding in the UK:
1/4 people suffer from mental illness in the UK every year, but only 5.8% of funding goes to mental illness. About 300% less than cancer research. I suspect the numbers are very similar to what goes on in the US and Israel. Lose-lose situation.
https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/articles/research-funding-landscape

How much does the UK spend when it comes to mental health research? Mental health research funding analysis

http://www.nature.com/articles/npjschz201622?WT.ec_id=NPJSCHZ-201606&spMailingID=51722551&spUserID=MTI1MzY4NjMxNjEwS0&spJobID=944225390&spReportId=OTQ0MjI1MzkwS0

Molecular evidence of synaptic pathology in the CA1 region in schizophrenia Neurotransmission: Post-synaptic abnormalities in the hippocampus People with schizophrenia have extensive molecular anomalies on the receiving end of synapses in a crucial part of the brain’s hippocampus.