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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…
May 17, 2023
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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…
April 6, 2023
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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…
March 10, 2023
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is as Effective as an Antidepressant Drug for Treating Anxiety Disorders
A guided mindfulness-based stress reduction program was as effective as use of the gold-standard drug — the common antidepressant escitalopram — for patients with anxiety…
November 9, 2022
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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…
November 12, 2021
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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…
August 29, 2021
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Key Mental Abilities Can Actually Improve During Aging
WASHINGTON (August 19, 2021) — It’s long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now, new research from Georgetown University Medical…
August 19, 2021
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Ostroumov Receives Whitehall Grant for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders
(March 12, 2021) — Since joining Georgetown’s Department of Pharmacology & Physiology in January 2020, assistant professor Alexey Ostroumov, PhD, has focused on establishing…
March 12, 2021
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Study of Reaching and Grasping with Hand or Foot Reveals Novel Brain Insights
WASHINGTON (October 26, 2020) — People born without upper limbs who use their feet to reach for an item engage the same area in the brain that people with hands use to reach for…
October 26, 2020