All Posts: mind
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Georgetown Team Leads Transformative Effort to Improve Mental Health Support for Military Families
Adolescent mental health challenges are common among U.S. military families. A new transformative effort led by Georgetown University aims to help change the intervention and treatment paradigm.
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Georgetown Study Explores THC/CBD Combination to Reduce Dementia-related Agitation at the End of Life
In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, the Georgetown University Medical Center Memory Disorders Program will study the effects of an oral drug called T2:C100, which is comprised of two components found in marijuana — THC and CBD. The goal of the study is to investigate its potential to decrease agitation experienced by those with dementia at the end of life.
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Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Where People Who Are Blind Recognize Faces Identified by Sound
Using a specialized device that translates images into sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists and colleagues showed that people who are blind recognized basic faces using the part of the brain known as the fusiform face area, a region that is crucial for the processing of faces in sighted people.
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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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Researchers Discuss Cognitive Function and Aging at 2nd Annual Healthy Aging Symposium
About 150 participants registered for this year’s Health Aging Symposium, which featured panel discussions on neuroscience, cancer, and healthy aging in the community, as well as poster presentations, a wine and cheese reception, a networking lunch and breakout sessions.
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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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