The University of Florida BRAIN Center and Brain Injury Florida, in collaboration with the Florida Department of Health, are conducting a survey supported by a federal brain injury grant. We aim to identify the needs and challenges faced by Floridians with brain injuries, their caregivers, and their healthcare providers. Your…
The UF BRAIN Center, or Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience Center, organized and hosted a visit a four-day visit health care personnel from the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee for activities at five UF Health clinics associated with concussion care. The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee team also met a…
UF Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center steering committee member, Dr. Chris Robinson, made a life-saving impact on the frontlines in Ukraine. His webinar on penetrating TBIs equipped Ukrainian medics with critical knowledge, saving a soldier’s life. Read more.
With support from a Traumatic Brain Injury State Partnership grant, a University of Florida team in collaboration with Brain Injury Florida is working to improve access to services and resources for Floridians living with the effects of a traumatic brain injury or other acquired brain injury, such as aneurysms, strokes and…
In a major week for concussion science across the United States and Europe, BRAIN Center members and alumni were represented across the board! Aliyah Snyder, PhD, and Michael Jaffee, MD, at the AAN Sports Concussion Course in Las Vegas. Dr. Michael Jaffee, Vice Chair of…
Center member Eduardo Canderlario-Jalil and his team have identified a new potential way to minimize brain damage caused by ischemic stroke: treatment using a synthetic form of adropin, a molecule naturally produced in mammals. Findings from the preclinical mouse-model study, published today in the journal Stroke, offer hope of adding…
In a recent CBC Radio episode, Dr. Lucke-Wold discusses how diet, alcohol and tobacco can factor into recovery after a TBI.
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 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…
