- Fall 2025 U.S.News ArticlePro Fighters’ Brains Show Warning Signs: New Imaging Reveals Hidden Damage to Brain’s Waste Disposal System. Read the Article : https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-12-01/brains-waste-disposal-impaired-in-pro-fighters
- Summer 2025 – UAB Medicine MagazineFeatured for providing leadership to the Civitan International Neuroimaging Laboratory, part of the Research MRI Core at UAB, which Dr. Mishra co-directs. Read the story: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/magazine/unlocking-mysteries-in-the-brain
- Fall 2024 – UAB Department of RadiologyCoverage of competitive funding secured to install a portable functional near-infrared spectroscopy system at UAB Read the announcement: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/radiology/news-events/department-news/the-division-of-advanced-medical-imaging-research-receives-hsf-gef-funding-to-procure-a-functional-near-infrared-spectroscopy-system
- Fall 2024 – UAB Department of RadiologyHighlighted for procuring competitive funding to install a Mock MRI Scanner at UAB. Read more: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/radiology/news-events/department-news/radiology-to-install-a-vera-mock-mri-scanner
- Fall 2024 – UAB MagazineFeatured in an article on UAB’s faculty recruitment efforts and Dr. Mishra’s decision to build his career at UAB. Explore the feature: https://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/fall-winter-2024/brain-trust
- Fall 2023 – Award RecognitionOur poster, “MRI Correlates of Subjective Cognitive Complaint in a Subset of Participants with Parkinson’s Disease from the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) Database” received Second Place at the Alabama Academy of Neurology (AAN) Poster Contest – 2023.
- Fall 2020 – NIH R01 Award CoverageNational press coverage of the NIH-funded project “Towards Generating a Multimodal and Multivariate Classification Model from Imaging and Non-Imaging Measures for Accurate Diagnosis and Monitoring of Dementia in Parkinson’s Disease.” Featured in Consult QD, Eureka Alert, and Neurology Live: Consult QD: https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/in-search-of-predictive-biomarkers-of-dementia-in-parkinson-disease/ Eureka Alert: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/cc-cc100620.php Neurology Live: https://www.neurologylive.com/view/nih-awards-grant-for-parkinson-disease-dementia-research
- Fall 2017 – Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) & Other MediaWidespread coverage of the publication “Multimodal MR Imaging Signatures of Cognitive Impairment in Active Professional Fighters.” Featured by RSNA, Medical Xpress, Psych Congress, and others: RSNA Press Release: http://press.rsna.org/timssnet/media/pressreleases/14_pr_target.cfm?ID=1961 Medical Express: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-07-mri-cognitive-impairment-professional-fighters.html Psych Congress: https://www.psychcongress.com/news/mri-biomarkers-linked-cognitive-impairment-professional-fighters
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