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UF Health Neurology AAN Annual Meeting participation

Check out UF Health’s involvement in the AAN Annual Meeting, a week-long event that will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The gathering “offers innovative, unique, and creative experiences throughout the week served up in exciting and inspirational formats to fuel your mind, body, and spirit.” American…

Supplements Won’t Prevent Dementia. But These Steps Might.

Do supplements help prevent dementia? MBI Deputy Director Steven DeKosky recently weighed in on this question for The New York Times‘s health column. “We see plenty of ads on TV, but we have no evidence that any of these things are preventive,” said DeKosky.

Fixel Institute selected for prestigious fellowship in movement disorders

The Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health was selected among five top academic health centers to host a prestigious Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. “The training that the Edmond J. Safra…

The Brain’s A-Team: UF’s Heavy Hitters of Neuroscience

Here are some of UF Neuroscience’s Heavy Hitters as featured on the cover of the latest edition of Florida GATOR Magazine! The Brain’s A-Team:  When it comes to brain research, UF scientists are the top of their game.  Meet a few of the Heavy Hitters in Neuroscience. Diseases of the…

Chronological Effects of Emotional Valence on the Self-selected Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories

Congratulations Drs. Williamson, Drago, Falchook, Wargovich and Heilman, on the publication of “Chronological Effects of Emotional Valence on the Self-selected Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories“.  This article was published in the March issue of Cognitive Behavioral Neurology.   Abstract Background and Objective: Salience of emotional autobiographical memories may have…

Deep Brain Stimulation for Obesity: A Review and Future Directions

Congratulations Dr. Okun on the publication of “Deep Brain Stimulation for Obesity: A Review and Future Directions,” in the current issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience.   The global prevalence of obesity has been steadily increasing. Although pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgeries can be useful adjuvants in the treatment of morbid…

Robotic device enhances surgical procedure for patients with epilepsy

By Todd Taylor A new state-of-the-art surgical device called the Robotic Stereotactic Assistance Brain is now in use at UF Health Neuromedicine Hospital, and it’s enhancing surgical options for patients with epilepsy. The procedure — stereotactic electroencephalography, or sEEG — uses stereotaxy techniques similar to those pioneered by the UF…

Core Concept: Can deep brain stimulation find success beyond Parkinson’s disease?

After decades of DBS studies, fundamental questions remain. “If someone tells you they know the mechanism of action, they’re being a bit ambitious,” says Michael Okun, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Some studies suggest that DBS can either excite or inhibit individual neurons, depending on…