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Measuring Brain Responses to Speech Provides Evidence of Cognition in Patients with Severe Brain Injury

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Measuring brain activity in response to hearing a brief narrative can identify patients with severe brain injury who have preserved high-level cognition despite showing limited or no consciousness at the bedside, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

The paper, published Nov. 21 in Current Biology, is the first to describe a method for measuring the delay in brain processing of...

Dr. Janet Braam Wins Weill Cornell Graduate School Alumni Award

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Dr. Janet Braam, PhD ’85, chair of the department of biosciences at Rice University in Houston, has been awarded the Weill Cornell...

Formative Experience

Joseph Heitman

As a student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program, Dr. Joseph Heitman, MD ’92,  was thrilled to be...

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