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• Insights Into How a Stroke Affects Reading Could Help With Rehabilitation

  Georgetown University researchers, looking at the ability of people to sound out words after a stroke, found that knowing which region of the brain was impacted by the stroke could have important implications for helping target rehabilitation efforts.

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• Key Mental Abilities Can Actually Improve During Aging

  It’s long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now, new research from Georgetown University Medical Center offers surprisingly good news by countering this view.

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• Renowned Georgetown Cancer and Aging Researcher Receives Top Honor in Her Field

  The American Society of Preventive Oncology selected Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH, to receive the 2020 Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award, its top honor.

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