New research examines the impact on nonfatal overdoses and addiction treatment in states that received Medicaid waivers to pay for services in so-called institutions of mental diseases.

Two researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity have received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand their study of brain structure, function and cognition across time through the use of a 7-Tesla magnetic resonance scanner.

Psychology professors Dr. Kristen Kennedy and Dr. Karen Rodrigue in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences were awarded $3.7 million from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging to extend their Dallas Area Longitudinal Lifespan Aging Study to include a fourth and fifth wave of data collection, which will allow them to follow study participants across 14 years.

Using this 24-ton MRI machine that has the ability to image less than a millimeter of tissue, the researchers will be able to explore the chemical metabolites of the brain’s tissue.