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Program enhances stroke care at nearly 3,000 U.S. hospitals News

Program enhances stroke care at nearly 3,000 U.S. hospitals

Study led by UT Southwestern shows AHA’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke initiative improves outcomes for millions
Challenging surgery removes dangerous, rare tumor from man’s spine News

Challenging surgery removes dangerous, rare tumor from man’s spine

Charles Lavender’s surgery in April 2023 to remove a cervical intradural traumatic neuroma from his neck lasted 11 hours. The tumor, pressing dangerously on his spinal cord, was exceedingly rare, based on its location, pathology, and the patient’s history.
A young neurologist diagnosed with ALS is inspiring a call to action News

A young neurologist diagnosed with ALS is inspiring a call to action

Ever since he was a boy, Michael Ibarra was fascinated by the human brain – its complexities, its secrets. Now, at age 32, he is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at UT Southwestern, and he has come face to face with one of the most complex and deadly medical mysteries in his field, ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
From Flashlights to Pupillometry: The New Standard in Brain Health Assessment News

From Flashlights to Pupillometry: The New Standard in Brain Health Assessment

Diagnosing critical conditions like major strokes or serious concussions with precision and ease – using modern highly reliable noninvasive methods – is the norm at UT Southwestern. Any doctor would embrace a painless, accurate, and timely approach, especially in emergency situations. However, despite the proven efficacy of pupillometry, many medical professionals still rely on an unreliable method of using flashlights to assess pupils, a practice that has persisted for decades.
Trials assess novel nanoparticle’s impact on brain cancer patients News

Trials assess novel nanoparticle’s impact on brain cancer patients

UT Southwestern researchers are studying new ways to use catheters and nanoparticles to break through the blood-brain barrier and more effectively treat complex brain cancers.
Personalizing Neuromodulation for Neuropsychiatric Disorders News

Personalizing Neuromodulation for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Neuromodulation, or brain stimulation, has emerged as a viable treatment option for neuropsychiatric disease, augmenting existing treatments such as drug-based and psychological therapies. At the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UT Southwestern researchers are utilizing their knowledge to build infrastructure for personalized neuromodulatory therapies to treat patients with depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, psychosis, and anxiety.
The Power of An Integrated Spine Care Mission News

The Power of An Integrated Spine Care Mission

Progress in joint replacement procedures has led to ever-shorter surgeries and broadened options, yet innovations in treating spine pathology – the leading cause of pain in adults the world over – has remained in the risk-averse shadows. Too often, these patients travel on diagnostic or treatment odysseys before receiving appropriate personalized treatment.
From Hope to Help News

From Hope to Help

Interventional psychiatry answers unmet needs in treatment-resistant depression.
Driving Breakthrough Discoveries in Neurodegenerative Diseases News

Driving Breakthrough Discoveries in Neurodegenerative Diseases

With its broad array of scientific talent, UT Southwestern's CAND is bringing exciting new advances to the study of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
DBS: A New Tool Against Schizophrenia and Depression News

DBS: A New Tool Against Schizophrenia and Depression

Scientists in the Neurological Surgery and Psychiatry Departments at UT Southwestern Medical Center are engaged in three separate clinical trials to test the efficacy of deep brain stimulation against depression and schizophrenia.
Taking a Critical Look at Patient Experience News

Taking a Critical Look at Patient Experience

At UT Southwestern, the Department of Neurological Surgery is committed to quality patient care, safety, and teamwork. We believe in optimizing the patient experience and outcomes inside and outside the operating room.
North Texas’ Only Gamma Knife Training Program Enters Its Sixth Year News

North Texas’ Only Gamma Knife Training Program Enters Its Sixth Year

UT Southwestern’s Gamma Knife training program has a long history of clinical and academic rigor. As a collaboration between the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Neurological Surgery, Gamma Knife technology offers patients noninvasive treatment options for a host of neurological diseases. UT Southwestern has the only Gamma Knife unit in North Texas and offers both frame-based and frameless treatments.

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