News Announcements

Brown to Lead new Interventional Oncology division

Daniel Brown, M.D., has been named Director of Interventional Oncology, a new division within the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences. Brown comes to Vanderbilt from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where he was chief of Interventional Radiology, professor of Radiology and a member of the Kimmel Cancer Center.

Validating Maps of the Brain’s Resting State

Kick back and shut your eyes. Now stop thinking. You have just put your brain into what neuroscientists call its resting state. What the brain is doing when an individual is not focused on the outside world has become the focus of considerable research in recent years. One of the potential benefits of these studies could be definitive diagnoses of mental health disorders ranging from bipolar to post-traumatic stress disorders.