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Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month. Purple is the most recognizable color out of the color wheel. It tends to be the last color that Alzheimer’s patients forget!We wear purple to help raise awareness for Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness and honor those facing Alzheimer’s with strength, passion and…

Automated Hippocampus Segmentation and Volume Estimation Using a Transformer-based Deep Learning Architecture

Congratulations to Drs. David E Vaillancourt and Steven Trent DeKosky on the publication of “Automated Hippocampus Segmentation and Volume Estimation Using a Transformer-based Deep Learning Architecture,” which appears in pre-print  at Research Square.   Abstract Hippocampus segmentation in brain MRI is a critical task for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatmentplanning…

UF neuroscientists awarded grants to advance Lewy body dementia research

Lewy body dementia is the second-most common form of neurodegenerative dementia in the U.S. behind Alzheimer’s disease. To help combat this growing health issue, which affects over 1 million individuals in the U.S., the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation supports the Collaboration for Pilot Studies in Lewy Body Dementia, an…