Just minutes after his left leg was all but severed in a farming accident, Albert Hattum says, he accepted the fact he’d probably lose his limb. What he didn’t accept is that he wouldn’t walk again, drive farm equipment or have a life less full than before his leg was sucked into his John Deere combine after he tried to remove a rock lodged in its blades.

A team of Mississippi and California researchers have managed to prove something scientists have hoped to be true about the brain. It can be rewired.

The Medical Center is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff: