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Dr. Anna Khanna explains the symptoms experienced by a person having a stroke and the need for appropriate and rapid medical response.

The odds of a person developing Parkinson’s disease over a lifetime are 1 in 15. It is the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease and is overtaking Alzheimer’s for the top spot. That stunning growth curve foreshadows bankruptcy for many health-care systems, said Dr. Michael S. Okun of University of Florida…

“Halting Secondary Brain Injury in Hypoxic-Ischemic Insults & Improving Accuracy in Neuroprognostication”   Carolina Maciel, MD, MSCR Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Director of Research, Department of Neurocritical Care PO Box 100236 Gainesville, FL  32610…

Investigators at UF’s Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, or CTRND, earned a one-year, $200,000 award from the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Target Advancement Program to explore novel approaches to treat Parkinson’s disease. The award will fund a study to determine how targeting cannabinoid receptor 2, or CB2, could…

In certain patients with significant tremor, University of Florida neuroscientists have identified a new technique to quantify dysmetria — an inability to make a movement of appropriate distance, such as touching a finger to a target object — and whether dysmetria is the result of tremor or from a dysfunction…

Tyler’s Hope Webinar Tuesday, July 7th at 4:00 pm Featuring Dr. Michael Okun and Dr. Edgar Rodriguez  We are excited to share with you the dystonia research being done, clinical advancements, and the Tyler’s Hope Foundation’s current projects.

Congratulations to Charlotte Henke MSc, Emily Mroz MS, PhDc, Ngoc Anh Le MPHc, Hannah M Gregory DOc, Ashley Ghiaseddin MD, Nikolaus R McFarland MD, PhD, and Jacqueline Baron-Lee PhD, on the publication of “Introducing a Supportive Care Team for Advance Directive Education in a Neurological and Neurosurgical Patient Population,” in…

Xia Wang, MD, PhD Neurofibromatosis Clinic Moffitt Cancer Center 12902 USF Magnolia Drive Tampa, FL …

We are so proud of our three amazing faculty who were promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1, 2020: Diego Rincon-Limas (tenure), Miguel Chuquilin, and Christina Wilson. Dr. Diego Rincon-Limas obtained his PhD degree in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering from the University of Nuevo Leon…

Congratulations Drs. Kulrithra Pisanuwongrak, Parunyou Jalayanont and Kenneth Heilman, on the publication of your research “Degenerative dementia with proximal radial and lower vertical spatial neglect,” in the June issue of  Neurocase, The Neural Basis of Cognition. ABSTRACT A 75 year-old man had a two-year history of progressive memory loss, trouble…