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Georgetown Co-Leads New NIH-Funded Multi-Institutional ALS Clinical Research Consortium
In an effort to disrupt the ALS clinical research landscape in the U.S., the National Institutes of Health has announced the establishment of a transformative national clinical research consortium to be co-led by researchers at Georgetown and three other institutions.
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The Curious Brain: Interdisciplinary Solutions for the Complex Problems of Neuroscience
Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience offers doctoral students the ability to see neuroscience through the lens of multiple disciplines, not only allowing for the possibility of broadening or shifting their focus, but actively facilitating it.
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A New Understanding of How the Brain Processes and Stores Words We Hear
Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists say the brain’s auditory lexicon, a catalog of verbal language, is actually located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not in back of it — a finding that upends a century-long understanding of this area of the brain. The new understanding matters because it may impact recovery and rehabilitation following a brain injury such as a stroke.
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Understanding How to Best Transform Speech into Tactile Vibrations Could Benefit Hearing-Impaired People
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, in collaboration with George Washington University, leveraged their understanding of auditory speech processing in the brain to enable volunteers to perceive speech through the sense of touch.
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Looking for a Breakthrough in Alzheimer’s Disease
After nearly two decades of clinical trials failing to deliver new treatments, Alzheimer’s disease researchers and clinicians, as well as patients and their families, have expressed cautious optimism regarding the new medications — and their implications for the future.
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Huntington’s Disease Care, Education and Research Center at Georgetown Designated as a Center of Excellence
The Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) has renewed its designation of Georgetown’s Huntington’s Disease Care, Education and Research Center as an HDSA Center of Excellence.
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After Stroke in an Infant’s Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side
As Children with Left-hemisphere Strokes Grow Up, Ability to Understand Language Shifts to Right side. WASHINGTON (October 10, 2022) — A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center found that, for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant’s brain […]
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Biomarkers Found That Could Be Drug Targets Against a Deadly Form of Brain Cancer
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Vascular Defects Appear to Underlie the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease
WASHINGTON (Friday, November 12, 2021) — In an unexpected discovery, Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have identified what appears to be a significant vascular defect in patients with moderately severe Parkinson’s disease. The finding could help explain an earlier outcome of the same study, in which the drug nilotinib was able to halt motor and […]
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Insights Into How a Stroke Affects Reading Could Help With Rehabilitation
WASHINGTON (August 29, 2021) — Georgetown University researchers, looking at the ability of people to sound out words after a stroke, found that knowing which region of the brain was impacted by the stroke could have important implications for helping target rehabilitation efforts. The finding appeared August 30, 2021, in Brain Communications. “One in five […]
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