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Research Centers and Institutes

Live Like Lou Center for ALS Research
Center for Neuroanatomy with Neurotropic Viruses
Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Neuroscience (CNUP)
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Degenerative Diseases (PIND)
Aging Institute
Pittsburgh Center For Pain Research
Drug Discovery Institute
Fox Center For Vision Restoration
Mental Health
Learning & Development (LRDC)

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Friday, December 15, 2023
Talker: Health breakthrough reveals new treatment to relieve phantom limb pain

In a study led by the University of Pittsburgh and published in Nature Biomdical Eingineering, researchers found an electrical pulse delivered to the spinal cord of amputees from their prosthetic... Learn More

Thursday, November 30, 2023
Brain Inflammation Linked to Mood Changes of Alzheimer's Disease

Postdoctoral researcher Cristiano Aguzzoli, associate professor Tharick Pascoal, and their Pitt School of Medicine team report in JAMA Open Network that brain inflammation, rather than amyloid plaque... Learn More

Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Blood test for astrocyte reactivity predicts future Alzheimer's

In Nature Medicine, Tharick Pascoal shows that abnormal astrocyte activation combined with amyloid build-up are disease harbingers. Learn More

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