A simple drug cocktail that converts cells that are next to damaged neurons into functional new neurons could potentially be used to treat stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain injuries, according to a team of Penn State researchers who tested drug combinations on cell cultures in the lab.
From on-field impacts to a digital model of possible brain injuries—researcher Reuben Kraft is leveraging high-performance computing methods to address potential brain injuries in athletes.
How are cyber-enabled and computational methods helping researchers better understand how humans learn languages? Ping Li, Penn State professor of psychology, linguistics, and information sciences and technology, and associate director of the Institute for CyberScience, will share his perspective to kick off the ICS CyberScience Seminar series for 2018-19 on Sept. 11. The event is free and open to the public.
A biology professor who specializes in brain research was an appropriate participant for the topic “Shaping Your Brain for the Future” — the theme of the second annual STEM Awareness Career Day held recently at Wellsboro Area High School’s administration building. Justin M. Ingram, assistant professor of biology (anatomy and physiology) at Penn College, spoke with approximately 500 eighth-graders from all three Tioga County school districts.
With a recent upgrade to the 3-Tesla (3-T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, Penn State will soon have one of the most technologically advanced scanners in the country. The upgrade will give researchers access to a clearer and more detailed picture of the human brain and its functions, as well as other bodily structures.
For centuries, the brain has been the subject of countless philosophical and scientific debates. Recently, many discoveries and theories have cropped up around how the brain works, and those theories are helping us better understand the brain's role in health and behavior. Faculty members in the College of Health and Human Development are advancing several subfields of neuroscience research, looking at topics that include aggression, movement and iron deficiency.
Penn State's Chandlee Laboratory, recently renovated at University Park for a new life as home to the Social, Life and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center, or SLEIC, held an open house Monday afternoon (April 13) to celebrate its new multidisciplinary research scanning facility. Penn State College of Medicine now has a twin of the MRI machine in Hershey, which will allow University Park researchers and their colleagues at Penn State Hershey's Center for NMR Research to collaborate more effectively to unlock secrets of the brain.
