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Graduate Student, Ruchita Mahesh Kumar, M.S., has been awarded a 2025 OBI Sprouts Grant to support her research on #neuromodulation therapies. Sprouts grants encourage creative, high-quality research that also advances the training of early career scientists. @TexasMemory

OBI Investigator @Allan_HPool is a 2025 recipient of the McKnight Foundation’s Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award. The highly competitive awards support innovative research by scientists studying neurological and psychiatric diseases. Learn more: bit.ly/3TOEeAN

🎉Huge congrats to @Baijie_Xu on the @AHAScience Career Development Award! In times of uncertainty, moments like this make it all worthwhile—watching trainees take bold steps toward independence. #ProudMentorMoment 💪@UTSWInternalMed @UTSWNeurosci @UTSWBrain @utswpda

Functional neurological disorder can cause symptoms that significantly interfere with a person's daily life, but it is due to disruptions in brain circuits and not the result of observable damage to the brain. Dr. Chadrick Lane explains how FND develops. bit.ly/3ImSr5s

UTSW’s Stroke Program has again earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval®, reaffirming our commitment to the highest standards of quality, safety, and patient care. Congrats to all who contribute to the success of the program and exceptional care provided to patients.

Welcome to Attila Losonczy, M.D., Ph.D., who joins OBI to lead our new Program in Memory Longevity! He is a pioneer in systems and circuit #neuroscience, and has made foundational contributions to the understanding of how the brain encodes, consolidates, and retrieves #memories.

Dr. Chaitanya Konda and his @UTSW_PMR colleagues tested a therapy for chronic shoulder pain called percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS). The study found that 83% of patients who received PNS required no further interventions for #pain relief. bit.ly/44PkFNw

☑️Check out this great postdoctoral opportunity at @UTSWBrain @UTSWPostdocs @UTSWGradSchool @ScienceCareers

Postdoctoral Researcher, Xinyue Han, Ph.D., is a 2025 O'Donnell Brain Institute Sprouts Award recipient. Dr. Han's research project focuses on predicting Alzheimer's disease using high-resolution diffusion MRI. She is a member of Dr. Nian Wang's lab. labs.utsouthwestern.edu/wang-nian-lab

Is laser interstitial thermal therapy #LITT a safe & effective treatment for #pediatric_CNS_tumors? Drs. Bruno Braga & Angela Price published a systematic review and meta-analysis in @TheJNS: Pediatrics. thejns.org/pediatrics/vie… @UTSWMedCenter @UTSWBrain #Neurosurgery #braintumor

Congrats to OBI Investigator, @SSebastianChoi, who is a 2025 recipient of the @klingensteinorg Fellowship Award in Neuroscience for his project, "Unraveling the Cancer-Neuron Crosstalk: Pathological Interactions Between Cancer and Pain Circuits." schoilab.org

Congratulations to @konstantoulea, Postdoctoral Researcher in @LourosNikos Lab, who is a 2025 OBI Sprouts Grant awardee. Dr. Konstantoulea studies mechanisms of #neurodegenerative diseases. Learn more about the Sprouts grant program for trainees. bit.ly/42ko8UE

@UTSWNeurosurg poster highlighting our #Quality Team's success in safely returning patients home sooner by ↓ avg #discharge time to < 3 hrs won a Par for Excellence ribbon @UTSWMedCenter's Celebration of Excellence. Our avg discharge ↓44 min in FY24! @UTSWBrain #Neurosurgery

OBI Investigator, Allan-Hermann Pool, Ph.D., was named a 2025 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The award supports pioneering biomedical scientists. Dr. Pool is investigating new cellular and molecular targets for precision control of the perception of pain. ritaallen.org/stories/2025-s…

How does #subthalamic deep brain stimulation #DBS improve response inhibition in patients with #Parkinson's disease? Read the new #BOLD_fMRI study by Dr. Nader Pouratian @drpouratian in @ParkinsonismD. prd-journal.com/article/S1353-… @UTSWMedCenter @UTSWBrain #Neurosurgery

Research from @DrTrivedi_CDRC & @AyvaciRabia found that young patients from lower-income households in Texas may not be getting the most effective treatment for severe #depression and #suicidal thoughts because of financial or geographic factors. Read more bit.ly/4jJgOHm

We want to congratulate Immunology Graduate Student, Zhen Tang, B.S., who is a 2025 recipient of the O'Donnell Brain Institute Sprouts Grant. The award supports early career scientists working on novel research directions. Zhen is a researcher in @nanyanlab

Congrats to Tope Adedolapo, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., on being selected Deputy Representative for Area 5 to the Assembly Committee of Resident-Fellow Members at the @APApsychiatric! #UTSW #OBI #Psychiatry #APA

OBI Investigator, Chun-Li Zhang, Ph.D., and Postdoctoral Fellow, Tianjin Shen, Ph.D., co-led research that identifies a protein responsible for worsening neurodegenerative disease. Finding ways to control GADD45g could lead to improved outcomes. Read more: bit.ly/4mIKebA

Chad Dashnaw, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the @fauxLukasz lab, is a 2025 O'Donnell Brain Institute Sprouts Grant winner. Dr. Dashnaw is studying protein aggregation and designing #tau amyloid. The Sprouts program supports researchers working with OBI Investigators.