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Study links cognition and brain networks before the first psychotic break
Mar. 5, 2025—Early detection opens the door for noninvasive intervention for those with treatment-resistant symptoms of psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. After correlating cognitive impairment and brain network organization in people diagnosed with psychotic disorders, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers discovered the same link in those who hadn’t had a first psychotic episode. Their groundbreaking study was published...
‘Angel’ transport celebrates 50 years of giving critically ill children a fighting chance
Mar. 5, 2025—For five decades, the Neonatal and Pediatric Transport team at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has provided safe and specialized emergency transport, 24 hours a day, for critically ill children and newborns. Primarily serving Tennessee, southern and western Kentucky and north Alabama, highly trained care teams transport children from birth to age 21...
The man who gave Angel 1 its wings
Mar. 5, 2025—In 1954, shortly after he completed his year of ground control radar training at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, Curtis “Dean” Driver was transferred to Châteauroux, France: It was his first assignment, and he’d never been on a site with working instruments. Two weeks later, he was unexpectedly promoted to station chief, which...
Good Vibrations
Mar. 27, 2024—For decades, Music Row and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, two Nashville institutions a short distance from one another, existed separately. “There wasn’t a wall between them, but there weren’t strong bridges either,” said Roland “Ron” Eavey, MD, SM, emeritus faculty member, former chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and former director of...
A Life Rebuilt
Jul. 18, 2023—On Nov. 19, 2020, Sabrina Johanson checked herself out of Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH), went downtown to meet the father of her two children, and injected heroin and meth for the last time. As an inpatient she had been receiving IV antibiotics for endocarditis, a heart infection from drug use that required six weeks of...