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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…

July 28, 2023

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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…

July 13, 2023

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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…

July 5, 2023

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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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Taking Neuroscience to School: Brain Scans Reveal the Hidden Shape of Thinking and Predict Students’ Learning Better Than Test Scores

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August 10, 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