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MBI neuroscientists talk deep brain stimulation at the Cade

McKnight Brain Institute neuroscientists and grad students shared the inner workings of deep brain stimulation, or DBS, with the Gainesville community Sept. 22 during a special event at the Cade Museum. With interactive stations demonstrating how DBS works, a team led by DBS pioneers Kelly Foote, M.D., and Michael Okun,…

Welcome Jennifer Rhoden!

Jennifer is the new LPN in the Movement Disorders Program at the Norman Fixel Center for Neurological Diseases at UF Health!…

CNG Seminar Lecutre Series – September 24, 2018

“Peripheral dopamine transmission in human macrophages is altered in Parkinson’s Disease” Dr. Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., PharmD Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience University of Florida September 24, 2018 5:15‐6:15 PM Cancer/Genetics Research Complex RM 133…

 All of Us Research Program

The All of Us Research Program is a nation-wide research program that seeks to enroll one million people and they are looking for your help. Through health surveys, electronic health records, physical measurements and more, researchers are able to take the information you provide in this study and use…

Age-Related Changes in the Allocation of Vertical Attention

Congratulations to Drs. Heilman and Williamson on the publication of “Age-Related Changes in the Allocation of Vertical Attention” in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society August edition. Abstract Objectives: Healthy individuals often have a leftward and upward attentional spatial bias; however, there is a reduction of this leftward bias with…

Everyday functioning in Parkinson’s disease: Evidence from the Revised-Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL-R)

Congratulations to Drs. Okun and Bowers on the publication of “Everyday functioning in Parkinson’s disease: Evidence from the Revised-Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL-R)” in the September edition of Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. Abstract Introduction Performance tasks are presumed to have greater validity than rating scales in assessing day-to-day…