Millions of Americans each year suffer traumatic brain injury, and many suffer long-term brain damage. A new ”nanocage” system to deliver drugs where they’re needed could help.
Death certificate data appear to underestimate the true mortality burden of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive impairment, according to a USC-led study.
USC researchers are investigating the impact of fine particle pollution on child brain growth and in older women who aren’t eating enough fish.
USC’s Sook-Lei Liew, Judy Pa and James M. Finley are researching the benefits of virtual reality for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease or stroke.
When families struggle with the decision to end life support for a loved one, these findings — led by a USC researcher — could provide reassurance.
Research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has found that readmission to a hospital where surgeons perform a high volume of brain surgeries can increase a patient’s odds of staying alive and avoiding complications.
People with complex epilepsy in Central and Southern California have a new team of medical experts to turn to.
After undergoing deep brain stimulation, Robert Warner can once again drive, type and work out.
Researchers are closing in on one of the most common — and complex — neurodegenerative diseases.
Researchers will identify and catalog each cell type in finer detail than ever before.
Wires implanted in her brain bring life back to a Southern California teen with dystonia.
Children with dystonia get up and walk again through science, engineering and a brain implant procedure from a team at USC.
With physical therapy — and weekly boxing classes — one man found the footing to hold off his mental and physical decline because of the neurological disease.
USC-led study shows that bystander CPR is associated with favorable neurological survival for drowning victims in cardiac arrest.
The speed of information traveling within a child’s brain may signal who needs the most help after a head injury.
Electrifying brain circuits may decrease depressive symptoms and chronic pain, but a USC scientist says we first need to see what the electric current is actually doing.
The 21-year-old who suffered a cervical spine injury in March gains significant improvement in his motor function at Keck Hospital of USC.
A human protein combined with stem cell therapy has been found to repair stroke damage to the brain, according to a new USC-led study on mice.
The future of neuromedicine grows closer at the USC Neurorestoration Center, where patients are already seeing the benefits.
Right Brain, this is Left Brain. Scott Fraser’s happy to make the introduction.
Students, alumni and faculty on the autism spectrum show they have a place in the university.
Neurosurgeons, orthopaedists, physical therapists and other experts at USC team up to ease spinal pain.
Scientists want to know why the brain devotes a huge amount of energy to whatever the network is doing.
USC physicians ask Southern Californians to take online brain tests that could lead to therapy for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.