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Children's Hospital is testing "Braille for the mouth" -- a lollipop-type gadget, teamed with a video camera mounted to sunglasses, that sends visual information to the brain. Learn More
Ted Huppert, PhD, assistant professor of radiology, uses functional near infrared spectroscopy, which can measure brain activity while subjects are moving around. Learn More
Once skeptical, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, MD, PhD, now works with colleagues at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic to turn yoga into a standard part of schizophrenia treatment. Learn More
Between five to 10 percent of babies at Magee Hospital are born addicted to opioids. Rocking, singing softly and holding them tight help these struggling infants. Learn More
Laurie Knepper, MD, associate professor of neurology, describes the differences in how brain aneurysms, migraines and tension headaches feel. Learn More
Mary Phillips, MD, and colleagues use statistical analysis of fMRI data to look for telling differences from normal interactions between certain brain regions. Learn More
Immunity is highest in the morning, which means you might consider getting a flu shot early in the day, says Colleen McClung, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry. Learn More
Kirk Erickson, PhD, director of Pitt’s Brain Aging and Cognitive Health Lab, will head the five-year, Phase III study with a grant from the National Institute on Aging. Learn More
Researchers were able to alter animals' decisions by using the light-flashing technique to stimulate dopamine neurons in a region called the ventral tegmental area. Learn More
Bernie Devlin, PhD, is co-lead investigator of a Nature Neuroscience study that ties 20 DNA variants to changes in expression of particular genes related to higher risk of schizophrenia. Learn More
Mathematician Brent Doiron, PhD, vision scientist Matt Smith, PhD, and colleagues describe spatial structure of correlated neuronal variability in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Learn More
Live Like Lou has a new spin on its annual fundraising bike ride -- a spin-a-thon set for Saturday, Nov. 19, in O'Hara Township. Proceeds go to ALS research at Pitt. Learn More
Virologist Ernesto Marques, MD, PhD, offers leading theories on why one region of Brazil has been hit so hard with microcephaly cases. Learn More
The team, led by Anne Robertson, PhD, William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Engineering, includes bioengineer Spandan Maiti, PhD, and Simon Watkins, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology. Learn More
Charles F. Reynolds, III, MD, has received the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Learn More
Bard Ermentrout, PhD, reports that normal test subjects uniformly described the same visions. Objective studies of hallucinations might eventually lead to treatment for people with schizophrenia. Learn More
World Polio Day commemorates the birth on Oct. 24 of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against polio. Key work took place in his Pittsburgh kitchen. Learn More
“The real organ for vision is the brain,” says Sahel, the new chairman of Pitt's Department of Ophthalmology and director of UPMC Eye Center. Learn More
Results of a national concussion conference, headed by Micky Collins, PhD, in PIttsburgh in October, are available on-line and will appear in the November issue of Neurosurgery. Learn More
Hear President Obama talk about meeting Nathan Copeland, the latest volunteer in the development of a brain-computer interface that allows movement and sensation with a robotic arm. Learn More