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Patrick Drew, professor of engineering sciences and mechanics, of neurosurgery, of biology and of biomedical engineering, and associate director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, has been selected to serve as interim director of the Huck Institutes with the appointment of Troy Ott as dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State.

Areas of the brain vulnerable to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease tend to have less dense vascular networks — which supply the brain wit

Melissa Brindise, Penn State assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a three-year, $231,000 career development award from the American Heart Association to study factors that may increase the risk of an aneurysm rupture.

Brain aneurysms are dangerous — causing death or neurological deficits if they rupture. But over two-thirds of them are stable, according to a 2016 study. How do practitioners know when to operate and when to leave them alone? The answer is complicat

Date Time Increased blood flow during sleep tied to critical brain function Blood flow and neural activity greatly increase during both non-rapid eye movement sleep and rapid eye movement sleep stages, according to Penn State researchers. Image: iStock/@Hank Grebe Our brains experience significant changes in blood flow and neural activity during sleep, according to Penn State researchers. Such changes may help to clean out metabolic brain waste that builds up during the day. “We studied the s...