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Congratulations to Center Member and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Paramita Chakrabarty, PhD, who received the Excellence Award recognizing outstanding tenure-track assistant professors. This award from UF’s Department of Academic Affairs is a one-time allocation of $5,000 in support of research. Dr. Chakrabarty was one of only two College of…
Earlier this year, the UF BRAIN Center, along with the McKnight Brain Institute, co-sponsored a helmet giveaway for Alachua County students as part of Brain Awareness Week. Volunteers from the North Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the only student-run SfN chapter in the U.S., visited…
Center member, Katharina Busl, MD, and her colleagues in the UF Neurocritical Care team have received the W. Martin Smith Interdisciplinary Patient Safety Award, co-sponsored by the UF College of Medicine Continuing Medical Education and the Florida Self-Insurance Program.
BRAIN Steering Committee member, Joe Abisambra, PhD, and his team research how broad kinase inhibition mitigates early neuronal dysfunction in tauopathy.
In The Conversation, Dr. Chris Robinson discusses COVID’s impact on the body after acute symptoms have resolved.
In Ocala Style Magazine, Center Director Dr. Michael Jaffee discusses the importance of sleep on brain health and offers advice for better sleep.
BRAIN Center member, Eduardo Candelario-Jalil, PhD, explores the “Impact of aging and comorbidities on ischemic stroke outcomes in preclinical animal models: A translational perspective” in an invited review article for a special issue of Experimental Neurology.
Center member Christopher P. Robinson, DO, MS discusses neurologic manifestations of COVID-19 and other severe respiratory viral contagions (Robinson C, et al. Crit Care Explor. 2020;2:e0107) with host Ludwig H. Lin, MD. In their discussion, they touch on Identifying primary and secondary neurological manifestations associated with COVID-19, the…
The North Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the only student-run SfN chapter in the U.S., capped off Brain Awareness Week’s first virtual installment today in partnership with the BRAIN Center and UF’s McKnight Brain Institute.
One year ago, members of the UF BRAIN Center teamed up with HealthStreet and Joseph Giacino, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard, for the Our Community, Our Health (OCOH) Town Hall on Traumatic Brain Injury. While the emergence of COVID-19…
