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Work by Mulva husband-and-wife researchers MacKenzie Howard, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology and neuroscience, and Audrey Brumback, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology, focuses on understanding neurodevelopmental disorders at the cellular and molecular levels. By defining how different brain circuits process information and how that information processing is altered… read more 

Gliomas are the most common type of pediatric brain tumor, and median survival for children with high-grade gliomas is only one to two years. Due to the paucity of research on pediatric gliomas, most therapies are based on adults and have limited efficacy. Recent studies of pediatric microglia have demonstrated… read more 

Kevin Kumar, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurosurgery at Dell Medical School, was the lead author of a recent Frontiers in Surgery article that analyzed the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and responsive neurostimulation (RNS) in children with drug-resistant epilepsy. DBS was used primarily for palliation of generalized or… read more 

Dave Clarke, MD, professor of neurology at Dell Medical School and Kozmetsky Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy, has been elected as chair of the International League Against Epilepsy’s North American branch, representing the United States, Canadian, and Caribbean chapters. Clarke, who has served as a board member of… read more 

From left to right: Former students Satyam Kumar and Hussein Alawieh and professor José del R. Millán operate a robotic arm using a brain-computer interface.  Did you know it’s possible to control a robotic arm or a wheelchair with just your thoughts, through a device called a brain-computer interface (BCI)?… read more 

Let’s congratulate our faculty members to their new position! Promotion to Professor Jorge Almeida, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Promotion to Associate Professor Leorah Freeman, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology Mbemba Jabbi, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Elizabeth Lippard, Associate Professor with tenure, Department of… read more 

Please be sure to attend the upcoming talk by Dr. Cemal Ozemek, hosted jointly by the UT CARE Initiative and the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education McGraw Lecture Series (CARE member Hirofumi Tanaka), this Friday, 2/28/25, 12-1:15PM, BEL 962. Click here for more information.