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?
Articles by John Pastor
Mainstream medicine misses cases of substance abuse, fails to match patients and treatment, UF experts say
Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Faculty Recognition, Psychiatry‘UF&Shands Family Medicine at Main’ opens, expanding primary care access in East Gainesville
Jun 27th, 2012 • Category: StaffPeople 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 LabWhat’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 NewsFounding 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, MiscellaneousThe 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 LabDeep 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/AppointmentsDaniel 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, NeuroscienceWhitney 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: MiscellaneousVariety 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 LabAs 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.








