All Posts: News Release

• Veterans Study Suggests Two Subtypes of Gulf War Illness

  WASHINGTON (December 12, 2019) — Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome that suggests a more complex illness that previously thought. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have shown the Gulf […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain research, Gulf War Illness, neuroimaging, neurology

• Palbociclib is Safe for Women with Advanced Breast Cancer Who Have Unique Gene Alteration

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities

• Remission of Follicular Lymphoma for Two-Plus Years Indicates Disease-Free Status that Could Be Lifelong

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, lymphoma

• Deeper Look at Tumor’s Genetic Mutations Challenges Current Precision Medicine Approach

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, precision medicine

• Georgetown’s Aykut Üren Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, faculty honors

• Nearly One-Quarter of Completed Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Results Are Not Published

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials

• Heightened Risk of Adverse Financial Changes Before Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

  WASHINGTON (October 25, 2019) — Prior to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a person in the early stages of the disease faces a heightened risk of adverse financial outcomes — a likely consequence of compromised decision-making when managing money, in addition to exploitation and fraud by others.  That is the disquieting conclusion of a study published in […]

  Category: News Release Tags: aging, Alzheimer's disease, health economics

• Brain Studies Show Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Gulf War Illness are Distinct Conditions

  CHICAGO (October 23, 2019) — Gulf War Illness (GWI) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) share symptoms of disabling fatigue, pain, systemic hyperalgesia (tenderness), negative emotion, sleep and cognitive dysfunction that are made worse after mild exertion (postexertional malaise). Now, neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have evidence, derived from human brain studies, that GWI and […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, neuroscience

• Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw

  WASHINGTON (October 23, 2019) — Georgetown neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a “crash in visual processing” — a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli that our brain recognized. In the Journal of Vision (DOI 10.1167/19.12.20), investigators describe what can occur […]

  Category: News Release Tags: neuroscience, vision, visual processing

• Novel Agent Flips on ‘Garbage Disposal’ in Neurons, Eliminating Toxic Brain Proteins in Mice

  CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center say they have developed and tested an agent that reduces the buildup of toxic proteins in animal models of both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and improves cognitive and motor behavior. The team presented their findings about the agent, CM101 (also known as BK40143), in […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Alzheimer's disease, neuroscience, Parkinson's disease, tyrosine kinase inhibitors