MIT team finds that the ratio of component atoms is vital to
performance. Judith L. Rapoport, chief of the child psychiatry
branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, is this
year's winner of the McGovern Institute's Edward M. Scolnick
Prize in Neuroscience, an annual award recognizing an
outstanding discovery or significant advance in the field of
neuroscience. Rapoport was selected for her groundbreaking
studies of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Childhood Onset
Schizophrenia, according to Robert Desimone, director of the
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, which established
the award in 2003. Rapoport will receive $50,000 with the award.
She will present a public lecture at MIT, hosted by the McGovern
Institute and followed by a gala awards dinner sometime this
spring. "Dr. Rapaport has contributed significantly to our
current understanding of the human brain," said Desimone. "Her
groundbreaking research has benefited thousands aro