University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, announced today that Tarek N. Hanna, MD, FASER, a nationally recognized expert in emergency and trauma radiology, has been named the new Chair of UMSOM’s Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, President of University of Maryland Diagnostic Imaging Specialists and Chief of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Clinical Service at University of Maryland Medical Center, following a national search.

The Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) Annual Meeting returns May 28–31, 2025, in Phoenix, AZ, uniting leading MS professionals under the theme “MS Heroes Unite.” The conference features keynote lectures from prominent experts, including Marie Namey, Anthony Feinstein, Riley Bove, and Robert Fox, addressing key topics like holistic MS care, depression, reproductive health, and treatment breakthroughs.

Additional sessions highlight advances in neuroanatomy, fluid biomarkers, fatigue management, genetic predictors, and more. With accredited education, networking, and interdisciplinary dialogue, CMSC Annual Meeting 2025 offers unparalleled insights for the MS care community.

 

A research team consisting of Kazumasa Uehara, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, and Yuya Fukuda, a pre-doctoral candidate in the same department, demonstrated that scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) power modulation of 4–8 Hz theta oscillation, known as frontal midline theta (FMT), observed in the medial frontal cortex just before initiating a movement is likely a key neural indicator explaining individual differences in the speed of motor skill acquisition. Analysis of scalp EEG data during a motor learning task integrating vision and motor action revealed that subjects who learned more quickly exhibited higher FMT power just before movement onset. These findings would contribute to the future development of personalized learning support and training methods based on EEG. Such methods could be applied in physical education fields such as rehabilitation and sports training, which require motor learning, as well as in enhancing musical instrument performance skills. The results of this research were published online in Experimental Brain Research on May 15, 2025.

In Project Chimera, Graz University of Technology's Game Lab Graz combines a VR computer game with educational problems in order to convey scientific content in a motivating way.

That “aha” moment when you come back to Wordle or Connections and immediately figure it out? Something fascinating is going on in your brain. A new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging shows that these flashes of insight aren’t just satisfying — they create strong memories that can help etch learning into the brain.