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 […]


U.S. News & World Report: Sleep issues are soaring in U.S. military: study

April 5, 2021

Dr. Vincent Mysliwiec and Dr. Alan Peterson, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, are quoted in this report about new research that suggests the effect of serving in the U.S. military can be stressful and that is showing up in a dramatic increase in two types of sleep problems like insomnia and sleep apnea. Read the story. 


Telemundo 60: Investigan posibles consecuencias del COVID-19 en el cerebro

February 12, 2021

Dr. Gabriel de Erausquin, Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, contributed to this Telemundo (Spanish-language) story regarding the research that he and other leading scientists from more than 30 countries are doing, supported by the Alzheimer’s Association, that is investigating the possible consequences of COVID-19 on the brain; he is currently in Argentina […]