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Published: Mar 16th, 2011
The four chairs of the University of Florida’s “neuromedicine” departments — neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery and psychiatry — will discuss the latest research and medical initiatives from 2 p.m. to 3:30 [...]
Published: Jan 28th, 2011
‘Math is going to be the new microscope of the 21st century …’
Published: Nov 23rd, 2010
A hand-held device that strengthens the muscles involved in swallowing can address a serious symptom of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new University of Florida study. In what researchers believe [...]
Published: Nov 23rd, 2010
“The prevailing clinical view is patients who are able to recover need to display early leg movement. The children in our studies displayed minimal or no movement, yet some were still able to make significant improvement.” — Dena Howland, an associate professor of neuroscience
Published: Sep 6th, 2010
A leading authority in neurology and translational research has been named the new executive director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida. [...]
Published: Aug 26th, 2010
Production of new nerve cells in the human brain is linked to learning and memory, according to a University of Florida study now online in the journal Brain. The research [...]
Published: Jul 19th, 2010
Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that contributes to a rare brain disease that causes patients to lose control of their coordination and movements. Writing in PLoS Genetics, scientists with [...]
Published: Jun 25th, 2010
McKnight Brain Research Foundation scientists and board members gather at the first McKnight brain institute ever established: the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida.
Published: Jun 25th, 2010
The finding may be useful for doctors assessing whether Alzheimer’s patients are clinically depressed.
Published: Apr 27th, 2010
University of Florida researchers will receive $250,000 to study an inventive cell-transfer therapy to treat cortical dysplasia, a condition where the brain develops abnormally before birth, causing severe epilepsy in [...]