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USC study reveals hidden cellular layers in the brain’s memory center

December 03, 2025
Multicolored labeling, with different colors representing different genes, reveals a hidden layered architecture in the CA1 of the hippocampus. (Image courtesy of USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute)
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USC study maps brain wiring differences in youth with autism

November 24, 2025
Image shows differences in the brain’s communication pathways, including white matter tracts, linked to Autism.
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USC and UCLA: 10 ways these football rivals are partners off the field

November 24, 2025
USC’s Inderbir Gill (right) and UCLA’s Nima Nassiri worked on a collaborative surgery that was the result of more than four years of research and preparation.
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Medical and engineering teams’ work on brain tumors, leukemia are NEMO Prize winners

November 24, 2025
Group of healthcare professionals gathered around a laptop, actively collaborating
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USC team explores the nervous-system pathways that heighten endometriosis pain

November 18, 2025
A woman sitting on a couch, holding her stomach, showing signs of discomfort and pain.
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AI tools to help unveil patterns between social determinants of health, mental health risks, among autistic youth

November 10, 2025
AI illustration (Adobe Stock)
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A path to safer painkillers – revealed by freezing opioids and their protein receptors in motion

November 05, 2025
Two different versions of the mu-opioid receptor within a cellular membrane illustrate how the receptor changes its form to send a signal into the cell. (Illustration: Courtesy of Saif Khan and Vishwang Gowariker.)
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USC researchers use AI to uncover genetic blueprint of the brain’s largest communication bridge

November 04, 2025
Image shows the part of the brain called the the corpus callosum, the brain’s largest communication pathway.
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USC researchers study how neural systems shape the chronic pain experience

October 10, 2025
A new $2.9 million grant will use brain images from thousands of patients with endometriosis to better understand treatment response.
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USC researchers develop new brain imaging method to reveal hidden vascular changes with aging

September 25, 2025
Image shows depiction of heart, arteries, veins and microvessels in an outline of a human form, with a close-up of blood cells in a microvessel in the brain