Faculty Achievement
USC Dornsife psychologist co-leads $39M push to detect Alzheimer’s earlier
Spotting the earliest warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease could help delay or even prevent the disease. NGP Faculty Duke Han is co-leading a...
Categories: Faculty Achievement , Research Advancements
The Surprising Way Men’s Brains Change After They Become Parents
Great parents are “made, not born,” says NGP Faculty Darby Saxbe.
Categories: Faculty Achievement , Research Advancements
USC researchers win $8 million NIH grant to pursue novel Alzheimer’s drug
The team of scientists, led by NGP Faculty Hussein Yassine, is investigating why some carriers of the APOE4 gene — the strongest...
Categories: Faculty Achievement , Research Advancements
How Witnessing Violence Impacts Brain Development—and What Colleges Can Do
Helping students make meaning of what they’ve witnessed, and the larger societal context, may actually help the brain heal, NGP Faculty Mary...
Categories: Faculty Achievement , Research Advancements
Brain cell discovery may explain excessive hunger
NGP Faculty Scott Kanoski led research identifying “meal memory” neurons in laboratory rats that could explain why forgetting lunch leads to overeating....
Categories: Faculty Achievement , Memory , Research Advancements , Student Achievements
NGP Faculty & Student find a gut-brain link that may affect behavior in children with autism
NGP Faculty, Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, with the help of NGP Student, Ravi Bhatt, finds that an imbalance in the microbiome disrupts neurotransmitter production...
Categories: Faculty Achievement , Research Advancements
