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May 29, 2025
In the past five years, UT Health San Antonio has conducted more than 600 clinical research projects with one goal in mind — making lives better for people in San Antonio, Texas and beyond through innovative solutions to today’s most challenging health problems.
May 16, 2025
Can stress lead to Alzheimer’s disease? It can in women who are post-menopausal, a study led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) shows. Analyzing data from 305 cognitively unimpaired participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a long-term and ongoing community-based cohort study of residents in […]
May 14, 2025
There might be such a thing as getting too much of a good night’s sleep. Sleeping nine hours or more per night is associated with worse cognitive performance, which is even more the case for those with depression, a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center (UT Health San […]
March 31, 2025
In groundbreaking news for patients with movement disorders, neurologists with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are among the nation’s first to use technology that enables deep brain stimulation that adapts as symptoms change.
February 11, 2025
Five years after the height of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, scientists are beginning to unveil the infection’s potential long-term effects on the brain. We now know that following an acute COVID-19 infection, between 10% and 35% of people suffer from lingering effects called long COVID. For some people, these effects can be mild and short-lived, […]
January 29, 2025
Advancement in the detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases means more people can preserve brain health for longer. But a crisis looms as an onslaught of people at risk for neurodegenerative diseases in the next 40 years is met with a shortage of health care providers. According to the U.S. […]
