Health & Medicine

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has awarded about $2,056,000 in grants to continue developing and strengthening mental health services and supports for children, youth and families in Houston and Harris County.

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin has selected The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to receive $550,000 over five years to create the El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium. The consortium internship positions will allow doctoral psychology students to perform one year of supervised training, a requirement…

New neuroscience research that shows cocaine abuse hijacks the brain’s reward system could lead to new drug-therapy interventions for addiction.

From image processing to 3-D modeling to search, computer and computational science help improve the drug discovery pipeline.

When humans learn, their brains relate new information with past experiences to derive new knowledge, according to psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin.

How UT-created computer models can help officials prepare for pandemics.

Exciting new findings in UT’s neurobiology labs suggest that rapamycin, an FDA-approved immunosuppressant used to control organ rejection in transplant patients, may be an effective therapy for Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, and even autism.

Ten professors in Texas have been awarded grants by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to conduct innovative academic research in mental health.

University of Texas at Austin experts available to comment on health care policy and the Affordable Care Act

Five recent graduates of law, social work, public policy or other graduate programs will receive intensive training, education and experience in mental health advocacy and policy work through the Hogg Mental Health Policy Fellow Grants project.

The American College Health Association recently honored the Center for Students in Recovery (CSR) with the “Best Practices in College Health” Award for 2012. CSR supports students at The University of Texas at Austin who have alcoholism and other drug addictions by offering them a pathway to recovery and academic achievement. The American College Health…