Neuro News & Events

When it opened in 1906 on Catherine Street near the University of Michigan’s main hospitals, the stately brick State Psychopathic Hospital meant something new in the world of mental health.

The history of the founding of the Eisenberg Family Depression Center at the University of Michigan, the nation's first center focused on research, community outreach and stigma reduction in depression and bipolar disorder.

The Department of Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB) welcomes Colleen McLaughlin, PhD, as an assistant professor. McLaughlin joins a growing cohort of faculty located in NCRC and is also a member of the Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI).

Kamran Diba, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology and faculty member in the Michigan Neuroscience Institute, studies memory and sleep by tracking when groups of neurons fire. The goal is to understand the full arc of memory processing – from the moment an experience is encoded, through the changes that stabilize it, to its later recall.

New onset depression in obstetrics and gynecology residents in their intern year is common and often untreated, and linked to depression history, higher work hours and less sleep.

During a ceremony on Sept. 23, 2026, Yunlu Zhu, PhD, was appointed the Terry and Shelley Barr Research Professor.