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Once a year, and not on Halloween, Houston kids get to hold a real human brain. Not a plastic replica. A real one. Pretty icky and neat at the same time.
The human brain, with its countless mysteries and complex links, may represent the next frontier of discovery and innovation. UTHealth researchers Yahuan Lou, PhD, and João L. de Quevedo, MD, PhD, are helping us to understand what makes our brains unique and to find better treatments, preventions, and cures for brain disorders.
Ryan Logan’s teammates dubbed him “Bullet” for his lightning-quick jukes and his trailblazing speed—the 11-year-old’s athleticism on the football field was unparalleled. With a wit that zipped quicker than his feet, he also excelled in gifted and talented classes and made friends across school. The only thing that reined him in were mysteriously recurring headaches and visual disturbances.
A new name honors a lifetime commitment to improving brain and behavioral health.
After struggling with opioid use disorder for seven years, 29-year-old Matt Bridgeman recalls slipping dangerously close to joining the more than 300 people who died of opioid overdoses in Harris County in 2018. The former forest firefighter had erected boundaries through two years of therapy, but they came tumbling down as opioids raged back into his life.
Within the walls of your house, you have a roof to protect you from rain, a door to close to make you feel safe, and most importantly, a place to call home.
Some students stole to pay bills. Others begged. Still others deliberated whether to buy their child’s medication or pay the mortgage. These acts—part of a simulated poverty experience for students at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth—illuminate the circumstances some of their future patients may face.
Getting older is a normal part of living. “Our brain function changes, and we’re not as agile in our reasoning or verbal agility,” says Vineeth John, MD.