May 12, 2025, Filed Under: NewsSound Waves That Heal: A Breakthrough for Depression and Anxiety A pioneering sound wave therapy that targets the brain’s emotional control center has shown powerful results in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD — all without surgery or medication. In a recent clinical trial at UT Austin, patients underwent daily, non-invasive ultrasound treatments for three weeks and experienced significant… read more
March 24, 2025, Filed Under: NewsCelebrating our Mulva Faculty Members Promotions 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
February 25, 2025, Filed Under: NewsUT CARE Initiative Seminar Series Speaker – Cemal Ozemek – Friday, 2/28/25 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.
December 15, 2024, Filed Under: NewsJames Sulzer Student Travel Award to attend a conference: deadline Jan 15, 2025 The UT CARE Initiative would like to announce the James Sulzer Student Travel Award – Spring 2025, which will provide funds to support a student (graduate or undergraduate) to travel to a scientific conference, for up to $1600 in total support. This fellowship is intended for students attending (with or… read more
December 2, 2024, Filed Under: NewsMission Critical: Shedding Light on Texas’ Overdose Problem Suzannah Creech, Ph.D., & Kasey Claborn, Ph.D. The opioid epidemic continues taking lives across the United States, with overdose deaths increasing rapidly in the past decade. Collaborations between clinical professionals and social service teams are building tools to illuminate a poorly understood problem — and to support those who have… read more
November 28, 2024, Filed Under: NewsMission Critical: Alexa, Assess My Attachment Style Jeffrey Newport, M.D., & Kaya de Barbaro, Ph.D. With tech like wearables and deep-learning algorithms, researchers and clinicians at The University of Texas at Austin are painting a clearer picture than ever before of how social-emotional relationships develop directly in the home. You can’t “diagnose” good parenting. But parent-child attachment… read more
November 18, 2024, Filed Under: NewsDave Clarke Receives Child Neurology Society’s Gold Humanism Award 2024 Congratulations to Dave F. Clarke, MD, professor of neurology, chief of the Dell Children’s Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Cente and member of the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences, for receiving the 2024 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award from the Child Neurology Society. The peer-nominated award honors a child… read more
October 25, 2024, Filed Under: NewsRegister to Senior Scientist Seminar: The Air You Breathe, Dec 5, 2024 Thursday, Dec 5, 2024; 12-1pm Register at bit.ly/S4Dec5 or contact Leta Moser for more information. Research improves thousands, if not millions, of peoples’ lives at a time. Join Dell Med’s Health Transformation Research Institute for the Senior Scientist Seminar Series (S4) to learn about the impressive career paths and impactful… read more
