The University of Florida and UF Health on Tuesday announced an additional $25 million gift from the Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation aimed at improving the lives of patients across the globe through the continued expansion of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health. The…
The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday awarded a $38 million, five-year grant to Brian Hoh, M.D., M.B.A., the University of Florida’s chair of neurosurgery, to test two new prospective treatments for symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis, a leading cause of ischemic stroke worldwide. Brian Hoh, M.D., M.B.A., UF’s chair…
A new study found that an FDA-approved medication to treat HIV restored multiple brain abnormalities in a mouse model of a genetic form of dystonia. Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder that causes muscles to contract involuntarily, leading to repetitive or twisting movements that limit independence and might also cause…
A new study found that ritonavir, an FDA-approved medication to treat HIV, restored multiple brain abnormalities in a mouse model of a genetic form of dystonia. The preclinical findings, featured on the cover of August’s edition of the journal Science Translational Medicine, identified ritonavir as a drug candidate with disease-modifying…
A study authored by Ka Loong Kelvin Au, Oliver T. Nguyen, Kathryn Moore, Emily Dinh, Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora, Michael S. Okun, and Leonardo Almeida and published in the journal Tremor analyzed geographic & demographic profiles of…
University of Florida neurologists Michael Okun, M.D. and Michael Jaffee, M.D., are featured in a recent edition of Clinical Neurology Update, from the NEJM Group. The edition includes a roundtable discussion summary about advances in Parkinson’s disease led by Okun, chair of UF neurology and editor of Clinical Neurology Update, and…
Tics are “a movement or a sound or a series of movements that a person tends to have in a repetitive way,” said Dr. Irene Malaty, a neurologist and director of University of Florida Health’s Tourette Syndrome Association Center of Excellence. “They usually experience a discomfort or urge that makes…
A $5 million gift from the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation has set the stage for the UF College of Medicine to build a comprehensive brain imaging facility at the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases to explore the brain as never before.
University of Florida neuroscientists have developed a new assay, or test, to detect minute amounts of a protein called tyrosine hydroxylase in blood immune cells of Parkinson’s disease patients, a key finding to aid in the development of a blood test to help diagnose and guide treatment for the neurodegenerative…
Joshua Brown, Pharm.D., Ph.D., recently received an NIH National Institute on Aging diversity grant supplement award for his research on dementia with Lewy bodies, or DLB. The supplement was awarded to a parent grant held by Melissa Armstrong, M.D., M.Sc.
