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Mainstream medicine misses cases of substance abuse, fails to match patients and treatment, UF experts say

Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Faculty Recognition, Psychiatry

If addiction is a disease, why do families refer far more patients to specialists and treatment programs than internists, or emergency room physicians or family doctors do?

‘UF&Shands Family Medicine at Main’ opens, expanding primary care access in East Gainesville

Jun 27th, 2012 • Category: Staff

People need a point of first contact in the health system. Family Medicine at Main will fulfill that need for East Gainesville residents.

Children with rare, incurable brain disease improve after gene therapy

May 16th, 2012 • Category: From the Lab

What’s your vector, Victor? We’ll tell you: AAV type 2. The gene therapy delivery vehicle pioneered at UF has been used to help four Taiwanese children with a rare disease have more comfortable lives.

Pioneering neuroscientist who founded UF’s McKnight Brain Institute passes away

Mar 26th, 2012 • Category: Faculty in the News

Founding executive director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, died on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at Shands at UF medical center.

‘Think tank’ on rare Parkinson-like disease Friday at MBI

Feb 16th, 2012 • Category: Event, Miscellaneous

The UF Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration will host the first annual Symposium/ThinkTank on Parkinsonism and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Friday, Feb. 17.

Parkinson treatment shows positive results in clinical testing

Jan 17th, 2012 • Category: From the Lab

Deep Brain Stimulation is reaching the next stage in its evolution as a treatment for Parkinson’s.

Noted clinical scientist to lead UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville

Sep 27th, 2011 • Category: New Hires/Appointments

Daniel R. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., has been named vice president of the University of Florida Health Science Center-Jacksonville and dean of the UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville.

Sea smarts: Scientists studying mollusks discover there is more than one way to make a brain

Sep 16th, 2011 • Category: From the Lab, Neuroscience

Whitney Laboratory scientists have reconstructed the evolutionary history of the huge group of animals we know as mollusks, finding that they do their thinking for themselves.

Abundant food choices may overwhelm brain, reinforce overeating, UF researchers say

Jul 21st, 2011 • Category: Miscellaneous

Variety is the spice of life, but too much variety of the menu may be making us fat.

UF scientists devise way to sort brain cells for potential transplants

Jul 12th, 2011 • Category: From the Lab

As brain stem cell therapies come closer to the clinic, doctors will need a way to know that the brain cells they are providing really are what they think they are.