After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UF neuroscience students got back into classrooms at public schools across Alachua County during Brain Awareness Week, March 14 to 20.
BRAIN Steering Committee member and associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, Dr. Lakiesha Williams, recently received an Alzheimer’s Association grant for her work studying the disease. Under a $150,000 grant, her project will provide insights into the role of a genotype called apolipoprotein E, or APOE, in tau pathology related to…
Delays in obtaining an appointment with a neurologist is a documented problem in the health care industry. In response, a University of Florida department of neurology team implemented a pilot program to improve access to neurological care, creating an “access clinic” featuring a novel staffing model.
Neuromedicine and neuroscience research at the University of Florida ranked Top 5 among the nation’s public universities in the 2021 rankings of National Institutes of Health funding published by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, released Feb. 8.
A new study published in the journal Neurology analyzing Medicare claims of more than 37,000 patients with COVID-19 and acute ischemic stroke has important clinical implications, according to an accompanying editorial by Alexis Simpkins, M.D., Ph.D., MSCR, FAHA, a clinical assistant professor of neurology in the UF College…
The Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center invites proposals supporting our mission to improve understanding of neuroresilience and neural injury and to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to treat acquired brain injuries.
Director Michael Jaffee weighs in on Cleveland Clinic study in Neurology Today review.
As a partner in the new Florida Brain Health Consortium, the University of Florida is strategically working to reduce rates of Alzheimer’s disease by focusing on lowering known risk factors such as hypertension, physical inactivity and depression.
Michael Jaffee, M.D., served as guest editor for the December edition of the journal Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology. Jaffee is director of UF’s Brain Injury, Rehabilitation and Neuroresilience Center (BRAIN Center) and vice chair of the department of neurology.
