During the first 1,000 days — from the point of conception to a child’s second year of life — there are critical windows of development where metabolic conditions are established that affect a person’s health across the life span.

OU Health in Oklahoma City is teaming with McAlester Regional Health Center to provide adult neuroscience services to people in southeastern Oklahoma.

To explore a promising premise in aging research — that changes to the brain’s tiniest blood vessels may play an outsized role in cognitive decline — an OU College of Medicine researcher recently received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.