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New NIA-Funded Center to Help Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives
The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $6.5 million, five-year grant to Cedars-Sinai, USC and UCLA to create the Los Angeles...
Categories: 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
USC study led by NGP Student reveals link between type 2 diabetes and brain health in older adults from various populations
NGP Student, Amaryllis A. Tsiknia, led new neuroimaging-based research which revealed diabetes-related brain atrophy in older adults from different backgrounds. Other authors include...
Categories: Research Advancements , Student Achievements
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 Student Pitches Transformative Venture for Los Angeles and Beyond at the 2025 Das Family Innovate x LA Student Competition
NGP Student, Laura Korobkova, was a part of the MyStuff group pitch, a secure AI-powered app that transforms photos into ready-to-use insurance...
Categories: 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
Faster, cheaper, better: the rise of blood tests for Alzheimer’s
NGP Faculty, Robert Rissman, is asked about how circulating biomarkers are quickly becoming a crucial part of diagnosis and disease monitoring for...
Categories: Faculty Achievement , Research Advancements
NGP faculty member elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
NGP Faculty, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, is among the select number of scholars, artists, humanitarians and policymakers honored for their outsize contributions to...
Categories: Faculty Achievement
How Much Sleep Is Enough? A Look at Sleep Duration for Better Health
NGP Faculty, Steve Kay, is featured in this LA Times article about sleep. Most adults need 7–9 hours of sleep per night, but...
Categories: Faculty Achievement
Music for the Brain
Elementary school students, guided by USC scholars, find learning about the nervous system is music to their brains.
Categories: Neurobiology
It’s not too late to learn something new
By studying brain tissue from patients with epilepsy, scientists at USC discovered that the generation of new brain cells in adults enhances verbal learning and memory.
Categories: Memory
The head and the heart
A new USC-led study reveals that mild cognitive impairment in older adults is associated with blood vessel dysfunction in the brain’s temporal lobes.
Categories: Cognitive Impairment
