University of Texas System and UT San Antonio leaders hailed “a new era of hope, healing and discovery” for neurological patients and their families with a ribbon-cutting Nov. 12 for the UT Health San Antonio Center for Brain Health, a $100 million, 103,000-square-foot facility that will bring specialty care, therapy, diagnostics and research under one roof.

With a new $1.9 million grant from the United States Department of Defense, researchers will lead a phase 2, multisite clinical trial to test a novel treatment program designed to strengthen and retrain swallowing function in people with early Parkinson’s.

Three leading experts in neurology and aging gathered at UT Health San Antonio Sept. 22 for Texas Public Radio’s Think Science event to share the latest in brain health research. Programs at UT Health San Antonio provide hope that scientific advances may one day make Alzheimer’s a disease of the past.