Congratulations to Aparna Wagle-Shukla, Anand Rajan, Zakia Jabarkheel, Nikolaus McFarland on the publication of “Prevalence estimates and clinical characterization for tremor and dystonia in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.” This article was published in…
UF Health will be heavily involved 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.”…
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A recent study on the brains of pigs by Yale neuroscientists published in Nature suggested that some activity could be restored even after the animals had been dead for four hours. In The Conversation, Katharina Busl, M.D., an associate professor of neurology and division chief of neurocritical care who specializes…
Congratulations to Dr. Okun on the publication of “Dopamine transporter is dysregulated on the peripheral immune cells of drug naïve Parkinson’s Disease patients,” which was published in FASEB Journal this month. Abstract Introduction Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is characterized by loss of substantia nigra (SN) dopaminergic neurons, resulting in reduced…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
