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Celebration of Diversity Week – March 30 – April 4th

Diversity and inclusion are core values at the UF College of Medicine. The Celebration of Diversity Week was designed to honor those values and explore opportunities to work within our community to promote cross-cultural understanding and address health care disparities. Please join us for our 2020 celebration. See a few highlights…

Differentiating tic electrophysiology from voluntary movement in the human thalamocortical circuit

Congratulations to Drs. Okun, Foote and Gunduz on the publication of “Differentiating tic electrophysiology from voluntary movement in the human thalamocortical circuit,” which was published in Neuropsychiatry. Abstract Objectives Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder commonly associated with involuntary movements, or tics. We currently lack an ideal animal model for…

Neurology Grand Rounds

This Week’s Grand rounds topic “ALS Therapy: New Developments and What We Can Do” presented by James Wymer, MD,…

UF Health researchers explore why 45,000 Floridian superagers are so healthy

“I thought making it to 90 and beyond was a pretty rare and special thing, which it is,” said Demetrius Maraganore, M.D., the B.J. and Eve Wilder professor of Alzheimer’s disease and a faculty member in the UF College of Medicine’s department of neurology. “But more than 45,000 superagers living in…

Postdoc Highlight: Lorena de Mena Alvarez, Ph.D.

Lab of Diego Rincon-Limas, Ph.D. Department: Neurology Age: 36 Hometown: Gijon (Asturias, Spain) Year I became a Gator: Fall of 2013 Research focus: Development and implementation of optogenic systems (tools that allow manipulation of gene expression in a light-dependent manner) in fruit fly models to better understand the biomolecular mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s disease and…