Can you zap your brain back to health?
Electrifying brain circuits may decrease depressive symptoms and chronic pain, but a USC scientist says we first need to see what the electric current is actually doing. ... Read More »
Experimental stem cell therapy helps paralyzed man regain use of arms and hands
Kris Boesen works to strengthen his upper body. (Photo/Greg Iger) On March 6, just shy of his 21st birthday, Kristopher (Kris) Boesen of Bakersfield suffered a traumatic ... Read More »
Steve Kay returns to lead USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
Steve Kay will lead the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. Steve Kay, PhD, has been appointed to lead the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience ... Read More »
Lilyana Amezcua awarded for multiple sclerosis short film project
Lilyana Amezcua, MD, assistant professor of clinical neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and her colleagues recently won an award at the 2016 Annual Consortium ... Read More »
Expert neurologist delivers lecture on stroke protection
David Hess is joined by the USC Department of Neurology Stroke Team and the Roxanna Todd Hodges Stroke Foundation President, Deborah Massaglia and Executive Director, Guy Navarro. ... Read More »
Challenge Accepted: Improving Treatment Options for Patients with Brain Cancer
Of the dozens of clinical trials being conducted at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at any given time, there is one in particular that has Naveed Wagle, MD, director of the ... Read More »
Q&A: Reflections on a storied career
Leslie Weiner, MD One of the transformative leaders of neuroscience at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has taken his last bow. Leslie Weiner, MD, ... Read More »
New Brain map could enable novel therapies for autism and Huntington’s disease
To understand how information is communicated throughout the brain, the mouse connectome project (MCP) uses multiple fluorescent-labeled dyes to trace the connections among all identified structures of ... Read More »
New brain map could enable novel therapies for autism and Huntington’s disease
Brain connectivity atlas assists in the understanding of mental and neural disorders. USC scientists have mapped an uncharted portion of the mouse brain to explain which circuit disruptions ... Read More »