BBS Insider Weekly Email Digest - Jun 2-8, 2025 - School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences - The University of Texas at Dallas
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Jun 2-8, 2025
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VNS Clinical Trial Shows Improvements for Spinal Cord Injuries
The approach, called closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation (CLV), produced meaningful improvements in arm and hand function in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury.
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Comets Mark Full-Circle Moments at Commencement Ceremonies
Keynote speaker, 2024 Miss Texas, and BBS alumna Annette Addo-Yobo BS’20 said, “You’ve been equipped with more than a degree. You’ve built stamina, perspective, empathy — the kind of stuff [professors] don’t grade — but life absolutely will.”
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Dr. Denise C. Park, Founder and Director of Research at the Center for Vital Longevity, to Retire on May 31
For 15 years, Dr. Denise Park has led CVL’s mission to understand how the brain changes across the lifespan and to promote cognitive health in aging.
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Raising Future Speech Pathologists While Filling Gaps in Knowledge
“By helping understand what the condition is that you are dealing with, you are not only helping the patients themselves, but you can also inform clinicians how to best manage their patients, which has a much broader impact,” said Dr. Adrianna Shembel.
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Greg Dussor: Pharmacology Scholar at the Forefront of Migraine Research
Dr. Greg Dussor, a core faculty member of the Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and co-director of the Pain Neurobiology Research Group, aims to develop novel therapeutics that could prevent or even reverse chronic pain states.
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Sharing of Lifespan Brain Study Data Expected To Light New Paths
“We have been using this dataset to study trajectories of aging across adulthood, including middle age, which has been understudied. The Dallas Lifespan Brain Study has been allowing us to identify individual characteristics that predict cognitive decline and disease,” said Dr. Gagan Wig.
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Biology, Computer Science Undergrads Win Goldwater Scholarships
Dr. Benedict Kolber said Myra Khan is one of the rare students who brings all of her resources and personality to bear in her research activities, including “her impressive knowledge of biology and neuroscience, her maturity, her work ethic and her dependability.”
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| BBS Podcasts |
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Episodes cover campus life, academia, research and more! Tune in now, the BBS student-led podcast Mindful Minutes is available on Spotify.
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Catch the Center for Vital Longevity’s (CVL) podcast for insightful conversations with leading scientists on cognitive health, cutting-edge neuroscience research, and more! Neuro Logic is available on Spotify.
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