Kudos to the UFHealth Epilepsy team on your exhibit at the 72nd annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society in New Orleans in early December! Highlights of the the UFHealth Epilepsy Program exhibit were the breadth of clinical expertise, the top-notch patient facilities at the new Neuromedicine Hospital, the advanced…
Congratulations to Damon G. Lamb, John B. Williamson, and Kenneth M. Heilman on the publication of “The Influence of Focused and Sustained Spatial Attention on the Allocation of Spatial Attention” in November online issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. Abstract:…
What do Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Diamond and Alan Alda have in common? They are just a few of the celebrities diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease who increased awareness of this progressive, neurodegenerative brain disease for which there is no known cure.
The University of Florida departments of neurosurgery and neurology have partnered and were awarded a highly select five-year National Institutes of Health Research Education Program, or R25, grant to support residents’ research education activities and academic career development.
Jessica R. Locke, PhD, APRN, is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in the outpatient setting for the UF Health Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, a division of the UF Health Department of Neurology. Dr. Locke grew up in Miami, FL, where she initially trained in nursing right after high school. She worked…
Please welcome Brittney Johnson to the department. Brittney joins us as a Research Administrator.
Congratulations to Drs. Michael S. Okun, Christopher W. Hess, Aparna Wagle Shukla and David E. Vaillancourt on the publication of “Cortical dynamics within and between parietal and motor cortex in essential tremor,” in the October 2018 issue of Movement Disorders. ABSTRACT Background: Evidence from functional imaging in essential tremor…
Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Nadeau on the publication of “Bilingual aphasia: Explanations in population encoding.” The article can be found online now and will be published in the February edition of the Journal of Neurolinguistics. Abstract The study of bilingual aphasia has particular power to determine the neural basis of language…
Congratulations to Deirdre O’Shea, Kailey Langer, Adam J. Woods, Eric Porges, John Williamson, Andrew O’Shea and Ronald Cohen, on the publication of their article “Educational attainment moderates the association between hippocampal volumes and memory performances in healthy older adults.” The abstract can be found online or below and the full article will be published soon in Frontiers in…
By Jean Cibula, MD, FAES November usually means the end of the hot weather and the start of the holiday season. It is also Epilepsy Awareness Month, and a time for talking about how epilepsy affects people’s lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 3.5 million Americans have…
