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Daniel Yoshor, MD, a nationally recognized neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, has been named chair of the department of Neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and vice president of Clinical Integration and Innovation for the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania showed that administering dantrolene through the nose increased its brain concentration and duration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease without causing obvious adverse side effects.

Lawrence R. Wechsler, MD, a leader in the field of vascular neurology, has been named chair of the department of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital.

An international team of experts led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Glasgow, has been awarded a $9.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and National Institute for Aging (NIA) to establish CONNECT-TBI—a program spanning 12 institutions which will study traumatic brain injury (TBI) and related neurodegenerative diseases.

Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will lead a multi-institutional effort in pursuit of developing a critical tool for imaging the brains of patients with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Penn Neuroscientists Call for Ethical Framework Grounded in Scientific Principles for Transplanting Human “Mini-brains” into Animals as Field Evolves.

Psychiatry and radiology researchers from Penn Medicine are teaming up to create a new Center of Excellence that focuses on the use of neuroimaging to improve our understanding of opioid use disorders and find better treatments for them.

A new study led by Penn Medicine researchers, which published today in Scientific Reports, uncovered an automatic “disfigured is bad” bias that also exists in contrast to “beautiful is good.”