Professor Leora Yetnikoff of The Graduate Center and College of Staten Island has been awarded a $1 million NSF CAREER grant to study how social isolation affects myelin in the brain — and how dopamine might help reverse or regulate those effects. Using advanced genetic and imaging techniques over the next five years, her team will probe how dopamine interacts with oligodendrocytes, myelin-producing cells, and whether this interaction underlies demyelination seen in isolation as well as in conditions like addiction, disease, or injury.

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