Research Radiation Breaks Connections in the Brain By Mark Michaud Dec. 16, 2019 One of the potentially life-altering side effects that patients experience after cranial radiotherapy for brain cancer is cognitive impairment. Researchers now believe that they have pinpointed why ...
Research The Night Gardeners -- Immune Cells Rewire, Repair Brain While We Sleep By Mark Michaud Oct. 21, 2019 Science tells us that a lot of good things happen in our brains while we sleep – learning and memories are consolidated and waste is removed, among other things. New research shows for the first time ...
Research NIH Taps URMC to Help Develop New Pain Relievers to Combat Opioid Crisis By Mark Michaud Oct. 16, 2019 University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have been selected as part of a national initiative by the National Institutes of Health to develop new non-addictive treatments for pain to improve ...
Research 3 Engineers Walk into a Cocktail Party By URMC Communications Sep. 17, 2019 How do humans solve the "cocktail party problem" through selective listening? And what happens when someone's brain can't cut out the clutter? These are the questions that a few biomedical ...
Research Student Spotlight: Emily Isenstein By URMC Communications Sep. 6, 2019 Emily Isenstein, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at URMC, is the 2019 recipient of the Child Neurology Foundation Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDD) Summer Research Scholarship.
Research Q&A with Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, Ph.D. By URMC Communications Sep. 6, 2019 This summer, Manuel Gomez-Ramirez arrived from Brown University to join UR as an assistant professor in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience.
Patient Care Mobile Stroke Unit Expands Operations to Monroe County By Mark Michaud Aug. 21, 2019 The UR Medicine Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) is now being dispatched to provide stroke care to patients throughout Monroe County. The MSU had been operating on a pilot basis in the City of Rochester ...
Research Single Brain Region is Key to Assessing the Impact of Repetitive Head Hits, Concussions By Emily Boynton Aug. 7, 2019 Researchers found that no matter where the head gets hit the force is translated into a single region of the brain known as the midbrain. Imaging this part of the brain may help to diagnose injury ...
Research Translating Fear By URMC Communications Aug. 1, 2019 URMC graduate student studies fear in nonhuman primates.
Research URMC Research Tool Unlocks Natural History of Batten Disease By Mark Michaud Jul. 31, 2019 URMC researchers have compiled decades of patient data and developed a highly sensitive rating scale that has provided a detailed picture of Batten disease.
