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Brain and Nerve Health

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    SMU Legend Eric Dickerson Joins the Latest Concussion Lawsuit Against NFL

    Eric Dickerson, the Pro Football Hall of Fame running back and better half of SMU's Pony Express, has joined the growing list of former NFL players suing the league for failing to protect athletes from permanent neurological damage stemming from brain trauma. Dickerson, along with 14 other players ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    V.A. Doc Discusses Traumatic Brain Injury, Diagnosis and Staff Sergeant Robert Bales

    Traumatic brain injury may be the most elusive of all war injuries. It presents itself through a number of symptoms -- mood changes, insomnia, headaches, memory loss, irritability -- and in varying degrees. The conversation surrounding such injuries recently became louder after Staff Sergeant Robert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    SMU, Packers and Cowboys Great Forrest Gregg Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease

    ​An old friends passes along this story from the Associated Press: Former SMU great Forrest Gregg -- Birthright, Texas's own, and a two-time All-Southwest Conference selection in 1954 and '55 -- has disclosed that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Gregg, a first-round draft pick of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Gulf War Syndrome Is Brain Damage Caused By Nerve Gas, Not Psychological Issues, UT Southwestern Study Proves

    ​There's no denying it now: Gulf War Syndrome, characterized by memory loss, lack of concentration, neuropathic pain and depression, is a physiological illness, not a psychological one. A UT Southwestern study, published in the journal Radiology, used a specialized MRI that specifically measu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Taking a Swing at Childhood Obesity

    Last week, we told you where you could eat well and do good on a budget. This week, it's time to stop being so stingy. ​The Event: The Annika Experience: Dinner & Golf Outing with Annika Sorenstam The Cause: ANNIKA Foundation The Place: Park Cities Club; Dallas National Golf Club If your pin ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Who says Arizona's SB1070 is Anti-Mexican? Besides Everybody, We Mean.

    Last week, we told you where you could eat well and do good on a budget. This week, it's time to stop being so stingy. ​The Event: The Annika Experience: Dinner & Golf Outing with Annika Sorenstam The Cause: ANNIKA Foundation The Place: Park Cities Club; Dallas National Golf Club If your pin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Former Judge Merrill Hartman, Who Started South Dallas Legal Clinic, Died Late Thursday

    Merrill Hartman ​One need not go far to find kind words for Dallas County Judge Merrill Hartman, formerly of the 192nd. From our very own pages in 2000, when Hartman was named Best District Judge: "In these highly litigious times when frivolous lawsuits are filed by too many lawyers clogging up t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    The DARPA Initiative: SMU, DOD Partner Again, This Time on Prosthetics That Feel

    ​SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2010

    Walk It Out

    ​SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Why's Justin Wagoner Slow Roasting on Knox Just to Get an iPhone? Nothing Better to Do.

    Photos by Andrea GrimesTuna salad sandwich, intert00bz, shilling for Apple.​It would probably take some kind of seizure disorder to set in before most Texans, or anyone else, would agree to camp outside during a June heatwave for a week straight on a patch of concrete. But Justin Wagoner actually ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2010

    Spatulas Up!

    Photos by Andrea GrimesTuna salad sandwich, intert00bz, shilling for Apple.​It would probably take some kind of seizure disorder to set in before most Texans, or anyone else, would agree to camp outside during a June heatwave for a week straight on a patch of concrete. But Justin Wagoner actually ... More >>

  • Music

    March 4, 2010

    Sean Kirkpatrick Opens Up The Nervous Curtains

    Photos by Andrea GrimesTuna salad sandwich, intert00bz, shilling for Apple.​It would probably take some kind of seizure disorder to set in before most Texans, or anyone else, would agree to camp outside during a June heatwave for a week straight on a patch of concrete. But Justin Wagoner actually ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    This Is Your Brain's Health Center

    Kimberly ThorpeOh, so this is what they mean by "Bush's brain."​So, you're busy reading this blog at your desk (or on your phone ... at a stop light ... or in the HOV lane). At the same time you're replying to an e-mail, checking your voice mail, answering a coworker's question and doing whatever ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 18, 2008

    Rated Blue

    Kimberly ThorpeOh, so this is what they mean by "Bush's brain."​So, you're busy reading this blog at your desk (or on your phone ... at a stop light ... or in the HOV lane). At the same time you're replying to an e-mail, checking your voice mail, answering a coworker's question and doing whatever ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 10, 2008

    Retirement Rock

    Seniors jam in Young at Heart

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    February 14, 2008

    Hot Stuff, Baby

    Seniors jam in Young at Heart

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    June 7, 2007

    Evil is Funny

    Seniors jam in Young at Heart

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    May 31, 2007

    What Play?

    Seniors jam in Young at Heart

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    February 1, 2007

    Working Blue

    This comic wants you to laugh at him

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    December 21, 2006

    Flying Low

    This comic wants you to laugh at him

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    September 14, 2006

    Midnight Buckaroo

    This comic wants you to laugh at him

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2006

    Get Positive

    Great moments in spin

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