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UT Health Austin clinician-researchers work to understand and address the elevated risk of Alzheimer’s disease among Hispanic older adults According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Hispanic older adults are at a disproportionate risk for Alzheimer’s disease in the United States, with some studies estimating that Hispanic older adults are 1.5 times… read more 

Dr. Nicholas M. Barbaro received the prestigious “Distinguished Service Awardees” from the The Society of Neurological Surgeons at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Dallas

The week of March  20, UT Health Austin’s Bipolar Disorder Center within the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences successfully completed the first SAINT protocol in Texas, and join institutions like Stanford, Harvard and John Hopkins as the only few sites proving this groundbreaking intervention to treat depression. The SAINT protocol received FDA… read more 

Akhil Surapaneni won the Larry Abraham Excellence in Rehabilitation Research Award, the overall grand prize for best student presentation or poster at CARE research day 2023. the Larry Abraham Excellence in Rehabilitation Research Award

Research and discovery are a key part of Dell Medical School’s mission — and of The University of Texas at Austin’s vision of becoming the world’s highest-impact public research university. Meet below our two Mulva Faculty involved in this critical mission:  David Paydarfar and Audrey Brumback or read about the eight… read more 

Audrey Brumback, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a three-year, $1,500,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health entitled “Functional Architecture of the Mediodorsal Thalamus.” Brumback’s team will use mice to map the structure and… read more 

Mapping how our brains process sound holds clues for helping some people retain — or even regain — speech. A team of UT and Dell Children’s collaborative researchers is pointing the way. A 12-year-old patient, Anna, is at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas awaiting surgery to treat epilepsy,… read more