MBI Events

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of an experimental form of brain surgery to treat extreme cases of obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD.

An estimated 4 million people suffer from Parkinson's disease - a complex neurodegenerative disorder that varies greatly among affected individuals. Better understanding of the brain chemistry that leads to the onset of this disease could ultimately contribute to improved therapeutic approaches, as well as help scientists to develop MRI-based methods of early detection and diagnosis.

Lucia Notterpek, Ph.D., has been appointed Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Florida College of Medicine, joining the growing ranks of women who lead basic science departments at major university medical centers. A UF neuroscientist since 1999, Notterpek has established a track record…

University of Florida researchers may have discovered why some brain cells necessary for healthy memory can survive old age or disease, while similar cells hardly a hairsbreadth away die.

More than 5 million children cope with the agonizing ache of ear infection annually, but a new discovery suggests damage to taste nerves caused by the common childhood ailment might increase the risk of obesity later in life, say University of Florida College of Dentistry researchers.

Hubert H. Fernandez, M.D., an associate professor of neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, co-director of the Movement Disorders Center at the McKnight Brain Institute and director of clinical trials for movement disorders, has been elected co-medical editor of the Web site for the Movement Disorder Society.

Kenneth Heilman, Ph.D., a distinguished professor of neurology at the UF College of Medicine and a member of UF’s McKnight Brain Institute, was elected to honorary membership in the American Neurological Association, the highest honor the ANA can bestow.

Estrogen treatments may sharpen mental performance in women with certain medical conditions, but University of Florida researchers suggest that recharging a naturally occurring estrogen receptor in the brain may also clear cognitive cobwebs.

Dennis Steindler, executive director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, was honored for his contributions to neuroscience at a ceremony with officials from the Catholic University in Rome, the university’s teaching hospital — the Gemelli University Polyclinic — and the Italian government.

The main course was clearly visible on the dinner tray, yet the patient wondered why the hospital only served vegetables.