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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 

Dell Medical School receives $1 million gift to support MS-focused research and inform patient care Reviewed by: Léorah Freeman MD, PhD Written by: Ashley Lawrence Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease that impacts the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. In MS, the body’s immune… read more 

Austin’s new doctors specializing in pediatric neurosurgery are making procedures safer and easier for young patients now facing only a single incision at the base of the skull — or, in some cases, no incision at all. On a given day, you might find Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, M.D., Ph.D., in the… read more 

Researchers studying preterm infants are discovering something huge: Not only can movement predict short-term emergencies, but it also has meaningful implications for long-term health. Humans are in motion long before we’re born: In utero, fetal movements promote the healthy development of vital organs, the nervous system and more. And when… read more 

Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease. People often think they know what causes chronic depression. Surveys indicate that more than 80% of the public blames a… read more