Displaying items by tag: neuroscience
A new UAB study reports on a potential new treatment for frontotemporal dementia, the second most common type after Alzheimer’s disease.
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Jarred Younger’s lab seeks to develop the state’s first research and treatment center for neuroinflammatory disorders.
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Barghi is one of just 32 Rhodes scholars across the U.S., and he is UAB’s third Rhodes winner since 2000.
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UAB’s new Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program is designed to help graduate students from underrepresented communities — racial/ethnic minorities and people with disability — succeed in a career in neuroscience.
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A protein that regulates memory may prove to be a therapeutic target for dementia and memory loss.
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A UAB neuroscience student has received a summer fellowship from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation.
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UAB is the first medical center in the Southeast to implant a new type of electrical stimulator to control seizures in patients with epilepsy.
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A federally funded study at UAB shows how invading glioma cells disrupt brain connections and break down the blood brain barrier.
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UAB commended for strong quality-improvement program, advanced certifications among respiratory therapists and pilot training.
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New drugs to slow or even prevent Parkinson’s could be in human studies as early as 2015.
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Anthony Nicholas, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is a co-editor of the first textbook on the subject of protein deimination in human health and disease.
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A new UAB clinic can predict risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease and offer strategies to reduce that risk.
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As part of its ongoing Science, Communication and Innovation talks, Lucas Pozzo-Miller will speak about Rett syndrome.
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A new NIH grant could allow researchers to better predict risk factors for patients using blood-thinners by examining the influence of genes, lifestyle, clinical factors and environment.
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Observations on depression with insight gleaned from the laboratory and the clinic are the focus of the third UAB Neuroscience Café at the Hoover Library.
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Parkinson’s disease awareness is highlighted with official recognition from Alabama and the city of Birmingham in April.
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UAB’s Epilepsy Center is housed in the Department of Neurology under the direction of Jerzy Szaflarski, M.D., Ph.D.
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The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees approved two endowed positions, an endowed lectureship and three emeritus promotions.
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Experts from UAB and other leading institutions will discuss mood disorders and suicide at an April symposium.
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Learn about Lou Gehrig’s disease at the second UAB Neuroscience Café at the Hoover Library.