Media
Dr. Roy Hamilton a special guest for WHYY-PBS The Pulse 10th Anniversary Show
Dr. Roy Hamilton along with Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation clinical research coordinator Jeffry Alfro made an appearance on the Pulse 10th anniversary show on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Show host Maiken Scott received tDCS stimulation live on stage while interviewing Dr. Hamilton on the use of noninvasive brain stimulation technologies in research to study cognition and the growing use by members of the public to try to enhance general cognition. Center staff members, Theresa Tritto, Associate Director, and Olufunsho (Olu) Faseyitan, Operations Manager were also in attendance. Link here!
Dr. Roy Hamilton Interviewed for Authority Magazine on Maintaining Brain Health
Dr. Roy Hamilton sits down with Authority Magazine on May 3, 2024 to discuss how lifestyle habits support cognitive well-being. Dr. Hamilton serves as a Trustee of the McKnight Brain Research Foundation, the nation’s only private foundation dedicated exclusively to discovering the mysteries of the aging brain. He discusses modifiable risk factors, nutrition, genetic predispositions, social connections, sleep and mindfulness as important parts of overall health.
Dr. Roy Hamilton wins the inaugural AAN Changemaker Award
The IDEAS Changemaker Award is for an AAN member who has made a meaningful contribution within their academic institution by increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within the neurology department.
Dr. Hamilton has shown tremendous dedication to the DEI mission of the neurology department at Penn, and this award recognizes him as one of the best diversity officers in a neurology department in the country.
Dr. Roy Hamilton awarded a Science Diversity Leadership Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Dr. Roy Hamilton is an awardee of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award for his work "Stimulating Brain Networks for Language and Building Networks in the Black Community to Fight Aphasia"
This project will use network neuroscience tools to find targets for the treatment of post-stroke aphasia through transcranial magnetic stimulation and enhance research diversity by engaging the local Black community.
CZI partnered with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to launch the Science Diversity Leadership program, a funding opportunity that aims to recognize and further the leadership of excellent biomedical researchers who — through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership — have a record of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in their scientific fields.
Neurology must 'move the needle' in promoting health equity
Roy H. Hamilton, MD, MS, discusses a symposium at the 2022 American Neurological Association’s annual meeting that focused on Alzheimer’s disease and MS and the disproportionate burden that underrepresented groups experience.
The Promise of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
brainSTIM Director Dr. Roy Hamilton talks with Penn Medicine News about how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) might help stimulate brain repair in patients with aphasia.
Dr. Roy Hamilton appeared on The Franklin Institute podcast
Using Magnetic Fields to Treat Depression
Episode 6 • 14th February 2022 • So Curious! • The Franklin Institute
Optimism in older adults improves functional recovery after stroke
Kelly L. Sloane, MD, discusses how optimism can improve function recovery after a first-time stroke in older adults.