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Watch a man with severe Parkinson's disease dance at his daughter's wedding after deep-brain stimulation surgery by Mark Richardson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery. Learn More
“They’re going to live very long lives," says Zika expert Ernesto Marques, MD, PhD, of Pitt's Center for Vaccine Research, "and they will need assistance from someone 24 hours a day.” Learn More
The Neuromuscular Control and Robotics Laboratory is developing an ultrasound sensor system for a device that uses nerve stimulation and external motors to help immobilized people walk again. Learn More
The Center for Protein Conformational Diseases, set to launch in April, will study protein breakdown in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, as well as cystic fibrosis, organ disease and cancer. Learn More
Simon & Schuster releases "The Inheritance,” about a family susceptible to early-onset Alzheimer's and the Pitt researchers they’ve bonded with over a decade of work together. Learn More
In young adults, making lots of virtual contacts is tied to a sense of lower social connection, according to findings by Brian Primack, MD, PhD, and colleagues. Learn More
Jamie Hanson, PhD, and colleagues found these teens were more likely to be mistaken about consequences of their choice-based behavior, even after repeated feedback. Learn More
The study of genetic variants and certain proteins helps explain an apparent inverse relationship in the prevalence and risk for the two disorders, as reported in a new publication by Nature. Learn More
The sample includes scientists who are applying the technique in hopes of interrupting debilitating pain, and restoring sight to the blind and arm movement to the paralyzed. Learn More
Pitt Med features the brain-body research of neurogastroenterologist David Levinthal, MD, PhD, psychology professor Peter Gianaros, PhD, and neurobiologist Brian Davis, PhD. Learn More
Pitt's Jeremy Berg, the editor of Science, lauds current examinations of rising autism prevalence, where data can highlight potential factors while ruling out others, such as childhood vaccines. Learn More
Listen to scientists in the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration talk about their quest to grow corneal tissue with stem cells. An unlikely but promising source: a patient's own dental pulp. Learn More
Learning Research & Development Center researcher Ming-Te Wang, PhD, and postdoc Rochelle Hentges, PhD, followed 1,500 students for a decade, starting at seventh grade. Learn More
Oliver Schluter, MD, PhD, led a study in the EMBO Journal that appears to rule out the nucleus accumbens as the prime site for storage of memories associated with feeling high. Learn More
Jonas Salk's injectable vaccine, developed at Pitt and tested on his son Peter, may finally wipe out the paralyzing disease in polio holdouts, but shortages have complicated the effort. Learn More
Neurologist Oscar Lopez, MD, says nearly a quarter of people over age 65 have mild cognitive impairment, yet this center appears to be the first in the country to focus on it. Learn More
Combining multiple images from different perspectives allows researchers like Ethan Rossi, PhD, to see features of the retina that were once invisible. Learn More
The latest AI project at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is aimed to help 2,000 scientists, academics and corporate researchers, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. Learn More
After the Florida airport shooting, Edward Mulvey, PhD, tells Associated Press that when mentally ill people are involved in violence, typically something else is in play, like substance abuse. Learn More
Ethan Rossi, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, developed the new method, called multi-offset detection, as reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Learn More