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July 27, 2021
Dr. Gabriel de Erausquin and Dr. Sudha Seshadri, Neurology/Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Rehabilitation Medicine, are quoted in this NPR story and share their research findings of how COVID-19 affects the brain. Listen here
June 17, 2021
Middle-aged people with depressive symptoms who carry a genetic variation called apolipoprotein (APOE) ε4 may be more at risk to develop tau protein accumulations in the brain’s emotion- and memory-controlling regions, a new study by researchers from UT Health San Antonio and collaborating institutions suggests.
May 7, 2021
Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drug discovery and development company advancing novel neuroprotective therapeutics for treating neurodegenerative brain injuries, is mentioned in this MedCity News story. Dr. James Lechleiter, Cell Systems and Anatomy, is the inventor and patent holder on technology licensed to Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. Read the story.
April 29, 2021
May is National Stroke Awareness Month — the perfect time to remind us of the F-A-S-T way to detect a stroke: FACE drooping ARM weakness SPEECH difficulty TIME to call 911 Time lost is brain lost, so if you or a loved one think a stroke has occurred, seek help FAST. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD, professor […]
April 29, 2021
Dr. Peter Fox, director of the Research Imaging Institute, is quoted in this Science Codex story about a published study in the journal Communications Biology that utilized BrainMap, a database of more than 20,000 published functional and structural neuroimaging experiments. Dr. Fox and co-authors compared the connectivity patterns of large-scale functional networks used in normal […]
April 16, 2021
Dr. Sudha Seshadri, professor of neurology and director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, explains the link between neurodegenerative diseases and high cortisol levels in this Discover Magazine article. The story mentions that her research published in the journal Neurology, has shown that those with higher morning cortisol levels are more […]