UT Southwestern campaign infuses $1B into Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute
Provide breakthrough treatments such as high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for patients with essential tremors (ET) and tremor-predominant Parkinson’s disease (TPPD).“I consider the brain the next frontier in medicine,” said the late Mr. O’Donnell when making an...
Can Olive Oil Actually Prevent Alzheimer’s?
New research shows that a diet heavy in olive oil may lower your risk of Alzheimer's disease. This new research, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American College of Cardiology, looked at men and...
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The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
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