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.
On Friday, September 17, 2021, the UF BRAIN and BREATHE Centers hosted an Acquired Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Virtual Retreat. Watch the video here.
In Ocala Style Magazine, Center Director Dr. Michael Jaffee discusses the importance of sleep on brain health and offers advice for better sleep.
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…
The UF HealthStreet community engagement newsletter is recognizing Brain Injury Awareness Month and the importance of helmet safety in their most recent issue.
Center Director Dr. Mike Jaffee recently joined Dr. Muhammad Adeel Rishi (Mayo Clinic) and Dr. Steve Hanke (Johns Hopkins University) on the Radio Health Journal podcast to discuss “The Downside of Springing Ahead.” They examine the annual switch to Daylight Saving Time and how it brings more accidents, heart attacks,…
Brain injury collaborative network Williams & Abisambra On Jan 9, 2023, Drs. Lakiesha Williams and Joe Abisambra kicked off the first BRAIN Building of the…
Connecting with Our Student Community Society for Neuroscience (SfN) SfN is a nonprofit membership organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain…
