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Traumatic brain injury survivor helps others through Mind Your Brain Foundation

With the help of Penn Medicine, Chester County resident Candace Gantt founded the Mind Your Brain Foundation to support fellow traumatic brain injury survivors.

How Havana syndrome helps us rethink the brain

A team at Penn Medicine found MRI results consistent with a major brain injury in patients suffering from Havana syndrome.

Penn study shows signs of Alzheimer's disease prevention

A study by Roy Hamilton of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues suggests that the drug lecanemab may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s or forestall its effects before they occur.

“Sleep well, you can make money.” ‘Insomniac’ Japanese companies’ grand strategy to get a good night’s sleep

According to a study from Penn, the cognitive ability of people who sleep an average of six hours a night for two weeks falls to that of a drunkard with a blood alcohol level of 0.1%.

Benjamin Prosser with his daughter, Lucy, and wife, Erin.

Gift to Penn Medicine and CHOP establishes Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

This $25M gift will bolster the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scientists at Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, led by director Benjamin Prosser, to accelerate research in genetic therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders.

African American senior citizen in a wheelchair with a group of people in the background playing a game.

Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts

According to a new Penn study, inequities in socioeconomic resources is the main cause of biological aging as measured by DNA methylation.

Microscopic view of Microglia cell and pyramidal neuron.

New approach for brain cell immunotherapy

Penn Medicine researchers have developed a selective medicine to get rid of old microglia, while also replenishing them with transplanted surrogate cells in their place, suggesting future potential for treating and even preventing neurodegenerative disorders.

Health experts want FDA safety review of fast-tracked Alzheimer’s drug

Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine says that an independent panel needs to meet to discuss the use of beta amyloid PET scans to support a drug’s accelerated approval.

Human brain organoids transplanted into rats respond to visual stimuli

H. Isaac Chen of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are showing that human organoids implanted into rat visual cortices can respond to flashing visual stimuli.

Human neurons implanted into a rat’s brain respond to flashing lights

Isaac Chen of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues found that lab-grown neurons transplanted into rat brains with damaged visual cortexes responded when the rats saw flashing lights.

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