It was a regular day during Pittsburgh’s sweltering summer of 2017. Bill Norton was heading outside when he called his wife, Amy, to complain of… Read more
Category: University of Pittsburgh
Pitt Researchers Receive Grant to Study Long-Term Lung Disease
Three Lakes Foundation has selected the University of Pittsburgh and Yale schools of medicine to lead a consortium to accelerate research into understanding and treatments… Read more
Pitt Neurobiologists Take an Unexpected Detour to Decode Decision-Making
In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience last week, University of Pittsburgh researchers described how reward signals in the brain are modulated by uncertainty. Dopamine… Read more
6 COVID-19 Treatments Helping Patients Survive
A year ago, when U.S. health authorities issued their first warning that COVID-19 would cause severe “disruption to everyday life,” doctors had no effective treatments… Read more
Pitt Launches New Study to Prevent Depression in Older Bereaved Spouses
As part of a $2.2 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, psychiatry researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine… Read more