New research by a team that included four BBRF grantees has demonstrated the value of studying the causes of complex psychiatric illness by analyzing neurons grown in the laboratory, using stem-cell technology. In experiments reported in Nature Communications, 2014 BBRF Young Investigator Ian Maze, Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and 2019 BBRF Young Investigator Lorna A.