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Study Shows Differences in How Patients With Heroin Use Disorder Process Drug and Reward Cues

July 18, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

Findings may help inform the development of intervention and prevention strategies

Studying brain activity of swallowing helps researchers understand aging, disease

May 17, 2023 sarah JonasFeature

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Carle Hospital, and Purdue University teamed up to develop a new imaging tool that will improve our understanding of how the brain controls swallowing in both healthy patients and those experiencing a swallowing-related disorder. Their work will be funded by a five-year grant expected to total $2.8 million from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.

Why doesn’t deep-brain stimulation work for everyone?

December 10, 2019 sarah JonasResearch Results

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have mapped nine functional networks in the deep-brain structures of 10 healthy people, an accomplishment that could lead to improvements in deep-brain stimulation therapy for severe cases of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions.