Crossroads Today: ‘Texas HHSC saw a need for people who want to understand their own condition or loved one’s”

June 1, 2021

This article is about the collaboration between the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and UT Health San Antonio to brainstorm and create a free eLearning series, which is available to the public. The series includes a variety of topics such as anxiety disorders, depression, substance use disorders, mood disorders, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, […]


MedCity News: StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups

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.


Science Codex: Diseases affect brain’s networks selectively, BrainMap analysis affirms

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 […]


WBTV: SC shooting suspect, former NFL player Phillip Adams will undergo CTE brain test

April 12, 2021

Dr. Kevin Bieniek, Pathology, Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, explains that if a patient is younger, that doesn’t always mean they will have a less severe Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) case and this disease is linked to repetitive trauma that can come in a number of different shapes and forms. Read and […]