All Posts: brain
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Doctors Speak Out Panelists on the Progress and Promise of Huntington’s Disease Research
A recent Doctors Speak Out event highlighted the progress scientists have made toward understanding Huntington’s disease, the promise of recent research developments, and the contributions of the Georgetown Huntington’s Disease Care, Education and Research Center (HDCERC).
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Cures Within Reach Funds Huntington’s Disease Clinical Trial with Nilotinib at Georgetown
Georgetown University Medical Center announces a clinical trial testing the safety of the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in Huntington’s disease. This is the fourth clinical trial of the drug for a neurodegenerative disorder.
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Medical Students Examine Solutions to a Deadly Epidemic
After taking a selectives course on the opioids epidemic, Georgetown University School of Medicine students feel empowered to use interventions and treatment techniques to combat an issue that has affected millions of Americans.
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Use of Electrical Brain Stimulation to Foster Creativity Has Sweeping Implications
What is creativity, and can it be enhanced — safely — in a person who needs a boost of imagination? In a newly published article, Georgetown experts debate the growing use of electrical devices that stimulate brain tissue to improve various forms of creative cognition.
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Georgetown Study Investigates Memory Improvement Through Nicotine Dosing
A new study being conducted at Georgetown University Medical Center aims to find out if nicotine can slow or stop memory loss in people experiencing mild memory problems.
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Making Sense of Senses: Researchers Find the Brain Processes Sight and Sound in the Same Two-Step Manner
A new study published by senior investigator Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD, a professor in Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Department of Neuroscience, and fellow Georgetown neuroscientists Xiong Jiang, PhD; Mark A. Chevillet; and Josef P. Rauschecker, PhD, is the first to provide strong evidence that learning in sight and sound follows similar principles.
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Georgetown University Medical Center Selected as Lewy Body Dementia Research Center of Excellence
The Lewy Body Dementia Association has designated Georgetown University Medical Center as a “Research Center of Excellence.” GUMC joins 23 other centers chosen for their clinical expertise in Lewy body dementia, experience running clinical trials in related conditions, their facility’s capacity and willingness to participate, and their geographic locations.
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Researcher Analyzes Potential Connection Between Reading and Math Disabilities
Guinevere Eden, D.Phil., director of the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University Medical Center, will start a four-year study to investigate a potential link between the reading disability dyslexia and math disability dyscalculia.
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Newborn Babies Who Suffered Stroke Regain Language Function in Opposite Side of Brain
At least 1 in 4,000 babies are affected by stroke shortly before, during, or after birth. A study led by Georgetown University Medical Center investigators found that a decade or two after a “perinatal” stroke damaged the left “language” side of their brain, affected individuals used the right sides of their brain for language.
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Language is Learned in Brain Circuits that Predate Humans
A new study published by researchers led by Michael T. Ullman, PhD, professor of neuroscience at Georgetown University School of Medicine, concludes that language is learned in brain systems that are also used for other purposes and even pre-existed humans.
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