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Researchers uncover a new player mediating metformin’s anti-diabetic action

August 14, 2025 blood sugar, Brain, Diabetes, metformin, Rap1, Research, ventromedial hypothalamus

The new brain pathway involved in metformin’s effect opens new possibilities for treating diabetes more effectively and precisely.

Momentum

A new treatment brings a new lease on life

June 3, 2025 Brain, brain aneurysm, cerebrovascular neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery

Learn more about how a new device helped treat Baylor Medicine patient Morgan Peterson’s brain aneurysm, performed by Dr. Naser Jaleel.

A person pointing to one of several x-ray images of a human skull, focused on the brain.

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Exploring new frontiers in brain health and neuromodulation and their policy implications

January 17, 2025 Brain, brain health, ethics, neurofeedback, neuromodulation, Neuroscience, non-invasive individualized neuromodulation, policy

A deep dive into neurofeedback (NF) and non-invasive individualized neuromodulation (iNM) and the future of brain health.

From The Labs

Research connecting gut bacteria and oxytocin provides a new mechanism for microbiome-promoted health benefits

November 2, 2023 Autism, Brain, gut microbiome, intestinal endothelium, L. reuteri, oxytocin, Research, secretin

The details of how gut resident bacteria L. reuteri can affect the gut and other organs are beginning to fall into place.

From The Labs

Fungal infection in the brain produces changes like those seen in Alzheimer’s disease

October 17, 2023 Alzheimer's Disease, amyloid precursor protein, Brain, C. albicans, cnadidalysin, fungus, Parkinson's Disease, Research, Saps

This work potentially contributes an important new piece of the puzzle regarding the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Does a disease impact your identity?

September 30, 2022 adolescent, Brain, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, deep brain stimulation, OCD, Pediatric Deep Brain Stimulation, Summer Interns, Technology

This is the fifth in an ongoing series by Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy summer interns, undergraduate/graduate students interested in emerging ethical issues. What are the

A neurosurgeon facing away from the camera while studying images of a patient.

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More than neurosurgeons: combatting firearm-related traumatic brain injury

September 16, 2022 Brain, Firearm, Firearm-Related Traumatic Brain Injury (frTBI), Neurosurgeons, Neurosurgery, Pedatric, policy, trauma, traumatic brain injury

Firearm-related deaths in children and adolescents have reached a tipping point in the United States. In 2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death

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Interrogating the brain on trial: neuroscience, ethics and the law

August 26, 2022 Brain, brain imaging, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, ethics, Ethics Sumer Interns, law, Neuroscience, Philosophy

This is the first in an ongoing series by Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy summer interns, undergraduate/graduate students interested in emerging ethical issues.