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Online course brings Spanish-language neurocritical care training to Latin...
Claudia Calvillo, BSN, RN, and Fernando Goldenberg, MD, in the neurointensive care unit at the Center for Care and Discovery When Fernando Goldenberg, MD, developed his first Spanish language online...
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Systems analysis points to links between Toxoplasma infection and common...
The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, tissue cyst in brain (Photo: D. Ferguson, Oxford University) More than 2 billion people – nearly one out of every three humans on earth, including about 60 million...
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Antibiotics weaken signs of Alzheimer’s disease in mice after just one week...
Neurobiologists Myles Minter, PhD, left, and Sangram Sisodia, PhD Last year, UChicago neurobiologists Sangram Sisodia and Myles Minter made a surprising discovery: Treating mice with antibiotics...
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From molecule to medicine: pursuing insight and new treatment for Alzheimer’s...
Postdoctoral Scholar Myles Minter, PhD, and Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD, Director of the Center for Molecular Neurobiology For a new drug to become a medicine, the process is long and expensive. The...
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How the brain reads body language to help people work together
Embed from Getty Images In sports, a team is said to have good “chemistry” when they play well together and get along on and off the court. Players who have played with each other for a long time can...
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Slight genetic changes can limit production of Alzheimer’s disease plaques
Amyloid deposits (highlighted in yellow) in a transgenic mouse brain One of the telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease is the buildup of “plaques” or clumps of proteins in the brain that damage nerve...
View ArticleChicago Hamilton star challenges social media to take #MyShotAtEpilepsy
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month, and the University of Chicago Medicine, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) and the Epilepsy Foundation are working to fund epilepsy research with the...
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What does it mean to be social? For science, a new definition
Rats display what looks like a human version of empathy–or are we both acting on the same social impulses? Think about the last time you called it a night, ordered takeout and spent some quality time...
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Amputees can learn to control a robotic arm with their minds
Nicho Hatsopoulos in his robotics lab at the University of Chicago (Photo: Jean Lachat) A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm...
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Neuroscience researchers at UChicago receive $3.4 million NIH grant to...
Nathan Copeland, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident, controls a prosthetic arm and hand at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. (Photo courtesy of Pitt/UPMC) A team of...
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