Does a disease impact your identity?
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
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Brain
More than neurosurgeons: combatting firearm-related 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
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.
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Brain injuries: impact and prevention
Dr. James McDeavitt outlines the possible physical, emotional and cognitive effects of traumatic brain injuries.
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Maintaining a cognitively active lifestyle
Whether you play the Wordle or Sudoku, keeping your brain engaged and active throughout your life is crucial, no matter your age.
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The Most Viewed Image of the Month in 2021
Brain of a mouse model of Huntington’s disease.
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Rethinking the brain and the path forward
A closer look at how the BRAIN Initiative is helping researchers understand the brain, develop innovative technologies and share data.
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Rap1 controls the body’s sugar levels from the brain, regulating it may help manage diabetes
One day, people might be able to control diabetes from the brain.
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Gene Rev-erb in the brain sets the rhythm of the liver’s response to insulin
The findings support that an altered daily rhythm of expression of the Rev-erb gene in the brain may underlie dawn phenomenon in diabetes.
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A new gut-brain connection that keeps weight off (or on) the scale
Eating extra servings typically shows up on the scale later, but how this happens has not been clear. In his lab at Baylor College of
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