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UT Southwestern Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute

We provide outstanding care
for brain disease while seeking
better treatments and prevention. Medical Research Center

09/26/2025

Benjamin Nguyen, M.D., Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, received the 2025 UT Southwestern Clinical Excellence Award for Mentoring. The award recognizes clinicians who demonstrate exceptional commitment and effectiveness as mentors to health care providers. Congratulations, Dr. Nguyen!

09/23/2025

O'Donnell Brain Institute Investigator, Rong Zhang, Ph.D., and Neurology Instructor, Danilo Cardim, Ph.D., were part of a team that developed a noninvasive test for Alzheimer's. The new tool has shown significant promise for improving disease diagnosis and staging. Learn more.
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09/16/2025

Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, is this year's winner of the UT Southwestern Patricia and William L. Watson Jr., M.D. Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine. The award is UTSW's top honor for clinical care and recognizes a faculty physician who exemplifies excellence in patient care, leadership in advancing clinical innovations, and who has had a profound impact on students, trainees, colleagues, and patients.

09/12/2025

The O'Donnell Brain Institute provides a variety of resources for our faculty including an annual workshop for new researchers who will be setting up a lab. Yesterday's workshop featured speakers from across campus who addressed issues like hiring, intellectual property, and research cores. Thank you to all of our speakers and participants!

09/04/2025

UT Southwestern has received a grant from the National Institute on Aging that establishes the North Texas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Ihab Hajjar, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Internal Medicine, will serve as Principal Investigator. The Center’s emphasis will be to advance research by exploring cardiometabolic factors that contribute to 's and related . Learn more:
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09/02/2025

The UT Southwestern stroke team and Parkland Hospital partnered with Cornerstone Baptist Church Kitchen and the "United Friends to Feed the Homeless" for an event focused on compassion, hope, and health. At the "You Are More Than Enough" Community Service Day on August 9, participants received free HIV, hypertension, and diabetes screening, as well as life-saving stroke awareness information. The groups also provided essential supplies like personal hygiene kits and sunscreen.

08/25/2025

A team of UT Southwestern physicians, researchers, and technologists is exploring the boundless potential of the state-of-the-art neuroimaging machine called MEG that captures brain signals with unparalleled precision. Since 2020, the MEG program has helped hundreds of epilepsy patients. In addition to treating epilepsy, the MEG team is expanding uses for the precision imaging tool to delve deeper into Alzheimer’s, concussion, and other neurological conditions. Learn more. https://bit.ly/4n3qrCY

08/21/2025

Psychiatry faculty members, (left) Adriane dela Cruz, M.D., Ph.D., and Elizabeth Heitman, Ph.D., have been elected to the UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers (SWAT). SWAT provides a platform for enhanced interactions among basic, clinical, and social scientists. SWAT members are nominated by Department Chairs and Academy members, with membership based on sustained excellence in one or more areas: teaching, instructional development and curricular design, advising and mentoring, educational administration and leadership, and educational research. Congratulations to Dr. dela Cruz and Dr. Heitman.

08/19/2025

Congratulations to Ruining Hu, B.S., who is a 2025 recipient of the O'Donnell Brain Institute Sprouts Grant. The award supports her research on circuit mechanisms for somatosensory regulation of . OBI Sprouts Grants encourage creative, high-quality research that also advances the training of early career scientists.

08/07/2025

New research in the O'Donnell Brain Institute suggests the CLOCK gene, discovered by UTSW's Dr. Joseph Takahashi in 1999, may have another function besides "master controller of circadian rhythms." The gene appears to play a key role in human cognition and neuropsychiatric disorders. https://bit.ly/4565iAs

08/01/2025

Dr. Heakyung Kim, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Dr. Maria Chahrour, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, were among the speakers at a campus event marking 35 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The UT Southwestern Office for Institutional Opportunity hosted the event that focused on the uniqueness of individuals with autism and invisible disabilities.

07/29/2025

UT Southwestern is proud to be named the No. 1 hospital in DFW for the ninth straight year by U.S. News and World Report, with the most nationally ranked specialties (12) of any hospital in Texas. Among those specialties, two are part of the O'Donnell Brain Institute–Neurology & Neurosurgery is ranked in the top ten in the nation and Rehabilitation is 15th. These honors belong to our physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, and other caregivers – as well as the many individuals who support their work, both directly and indirectly, every day – and to all our patients, who place their trust in us. https://bit.ly/4mkLjFj

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