December 12, 2019
UNC Neurosurgery News: August – November 2019
See what's new in the UNC Department of Neurosurgery: research, events, media, presentations and more!
Category: Neurology
November 26, 2019
Department of Allied Health Sciences Celebrates its 13th Annual Donor Appreciation Brunch
More than 100 people, including dozens of esteemed donors, joined student scholars and award recipients from the Department of Allied Health Sciences.
September 3, 2019
A Tribute to Kevin Robertson
Professor emeritus Colin Hall wrote this remembrance of his dear friend and neurology colleague Kevin Robertson, who passed away earlier this year.
June 19, 2019
In Remembrance of Dr. Kevin Robertson
Kevin Robertson, PhD, a professor in the department of neurology for more than 30 years, passed away Sunday after an extended battle with cancer.
March 11, 2019
Brain Stimulation Improves Depression Symptoms, Restores Brain Waves in Clinical Study
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Flavio Frohlich, PhD, are the first to use transcranial alternating current brain stimulation (tACS) to significantly reduce symptoms in people diagnosed with major depression.
January 7, 2019
New Genetic Risk Factors Discovered for Alzheimer’s Disease
The study was carried out as part of an initiative of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, which was founded by UNC School of Medicine's Patrick Sullivan, MD, who is the consortium's lead principal investigator.
October 29, 2018
Shih Earns $3.8 million NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant
Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD, associate professor of neurology and member of the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center, will use cutting-edge neuroscience tools to improve the understanding of fMRI signal in a brain area called striatum.
April 12, 2018
Garcia Receives Neurovirology Award
J. Victor Garcia, PhD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Global Health and Infectious Disease, is the 2018 recipient of the Opendra Narayan Lecture.
September 21, 2017
From gratitude to generosity: The Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation gives $4 million to support brain, geriatric and sleep health
The gift will establish a fellowship fund in Geriatric Medicine, an Innovation Endowed Fund in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, and support several programs related to sleep science.
August 8, 2017
Thanks to a UNC research project, she can walk again
As UNC geneticist Jonathan Berg gears up to lead a $9.7-million renewal of the NCGENES project, we look at a story from the original study and how it changed the fortunes of a woman from Goldsboro, NC.