CBS Evening News celebrates the recovery of Dr Bill Whyte who received the first convalescent plasma therapy through a LSU Health Shreveport clinical trial. LSUHS leadership quickly brought this life saving therapy to our community and School of Allied Health Professions Outpatient Faculty Clinic is leading Dr Whyte’s physical therapy.

Addiction touches the lives of nearly every family. Our mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, and spouses are all at risk of addiction, as are our friends and coworkers. The Louisiana Addiction Research Center is here to serve north Louisiana as well as the entire state, so you and your loved ones are not alone in facing addiction.

Alzheimer's is the leading cause of dementia in the U.S with 5.8 million people living with the disease. Numbers are expected to rise.

Aging is inevitable. Just as our bodies change as we get older, our brains also change with cell loss and decreased neurotransmitter production. One of the most familiar and widespread consequences of brain aging is memory change. 

The Center for Brain Health is unique because it combines clinical care expertise, neuroscience research and neurological rehabilitation, enabling every aspect of diseases, like Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, to be addressed and studied.

Every 40 seconds someone in the U.S. has a stroke, and here in the Ark-La-Tex, we are in what’s known as the “strokebelt.”  Dr. Randall Brewer will host our show on brain health and stroke risk.

Dr. Elizabeth Disbrow, associate professor at LSU Health Shreveport and director of the Center for Brain Health, was awarded a $69,780 grant by The Community Foundation of North Louisiana.

The Zadeck Family Foundation has made a generous donation of $150,000 to establish an endowed fund benefiting the new Center for Brain Health at LSU Health Shreveport.

The Shreveport Times - Angela Cason
“The center is the only neuroscience research facility in the state that offers the comprehensive clinical aspects in treating patients. Once they are evaluated and treated medically, they’ll continue to be followed into the rehabilitation aspect of their care,” said Dr. Suzanne Tinsley.

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“Advances in brain health rely on an approach that brings together clinicians, educators and researchers from many areas of expertise, which is something we are uniquely positioned to offer at LSU Health as an academic medical center,” said Dr. Elizabeth Disbrow, Director of the Center for Brain Health and an Associate Professor of Neurology. “When researchers work with clinicians, the research improves. When the clinicians work with the researchers, the clinical care improves.”