Brain Science

Our medicine-art journey begins in the mind, and so we open with a peek into the vast research underway across the university on neuroscience and the arts.

Newborn babies who suffered a stroke regain language function in opposite side of brain.

Adam Green teamed up with cognitive neurologist and neuroscientist Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD, of Georgetown University Medical Center, seeking interdisciplinary answers.

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found distinct molecular signatures in two brain disorders long thought to be psychological in origin—chronic fatigue syndrome and Gulf War Illness.

Researchers at Georgetown are studying how and why music is so neurologically dominant. “We want to understand how music resides in the brain and the body.”…

While neuroscience research continues to uncover the mechanisms of how the brain responds to music, clinicians and patients are experiencing the benefits of creative new applications for music and healing.

Researchers study perception of beauty, the neurological dominance of music, and the power of creativity.

A synthesized steroid mirroring one naturally made by the dogfish shark prevents the buildup of a lethal protein implicated in some neurodegenerative diseases.

Georgetown neurologist Carlo Tornatore (MS'82, M'86, R'90) carries seven essential items in his white coat pockets.

Neurologist is recognized for his research on reversing stroke-induced brain damage…