Author: Christian Estrada

UCLA Professor Hong-Wei Dong has been awarded the 2025 Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award, recognizing his foundational work in creating digital brain atlases and mapping the brain’s global connectome. His pioneering efforts in projects like the Allen Reference Atlas and the Mouse Connectome Project have provided the essential wiring diagrams for neuroscientists worldwide, enabling critical advances…

Professor Hong-Wei Dong | Mapping the Mind’s Command Centre for the Body

A UCLA study mapped a key brain hub in mice that regulates stress and social behavior, providing new insights into the neural basis of psychiatric disorders like PTSD and depression. The findings offer a detailed wiring diagram of brain circuits that could lead to targeted therapies for stress-related and social dysfunction disorders. August 27, 2025…

Reports on a new mouse brain stereotaxic topographic atlas with an unprecedented isotropic 1-micron resolution. July 2, 2025 https://bioengineer.org/mouse-brain-atlas-achieves-isotropic-resolution/

The term “developmental disconnection syndromes” (DDSs) was first coined by Geshwind and Levitt in 2007 [1] to describe the weakening of already formed connections or an absence of certain connections to establish correct organization de novo in early developmental stages. DDSs include a number of neuropsychiatric diseases, such as autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) [1, 2],…

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