All Posts: brain

• Research Supports Move Toward Better Tailoring Stroke Rehabilitation

  A new Georgetown University Medical Center study in collaboration with MedStar Health and the National Institutes of Health exploring a new brain imaging technique is bringing stroke experts a step closer to better tailoring rehabilitation.

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• Artificial Intelligence-Driven Imaging Tool for Assessing Strokes Is Launched

  (January 16, 2025) — A new first-of-its-kind, artificial intelligence-driven brain imaging platform launched by stroke physician-scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center in collaboration

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• The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?

  Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in the School of Medicine who studies the endocrine system and how hormones shape human physiology and behavior.

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• Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Where People Who Are Blind Recognize Faces Identified by Sound

  Using a specialized device that translates images into sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists and colleagues showed that people who are blind recognized basic faces using the part of the brain known as the fusiform face area, a region that is crucial for the processing of faces in sighted people.

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