Coronavirus and Parkinson’s Disease
Watch Dr. Michael S. Okun, chair and professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida, administrative director and co-director of the Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration within the McKnight Brain Institute, and national medical director for the Parkinson’s Foundation, along with UF infectious disease expert, Dr. Frederick S. Southwick, talk about […]
UF Researcher Talks About Parkinson Disease With JN Learning Podcast
More than 6 million people worldwide have Parkinson disease. Even though it is classically associated with tremors, the disease has many manifestations and is very treatable for most patients. Michael S. Okun, MD, the chair and a professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida, as well as the administrative director and […]
UF Neurologist Explains in The Conversation Ozzy Osbourne’s Parkinson’s Disease
University of Florida neurologist, Dr. Michael Okun explains Ozzy Osbourne’s type of Parkinson’s disease, the condition and evolving treatments in The Conversation. For many, hearing the word “Parkinson’s” conjures an image of tremors. But Parkinson’s disease, brought about by the loss of nerve and other brain cells, is actually an incredibly complex movement disorder that […]
New Imaging Study Shows Key Brain Changes in Aging, Alzheimer’s
A new collaborative study led by McKnight Brain Institute neuroscientists Sara Burke, Ph.D., and Marcelo Febo, Ph.D., gives insight into why brain networks become vulnerable in old age and in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. The rodent-model study, published in the journal eNeuro, links micro-scale changes in individual brain cells to large-scale changes in […]
UF-Led Study Offers Insights Into Adoptive Cellular Therapy to Treat Brain Tumor
New research led by UF’s Catherine Flores, Ph.D., and Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., offers insights to brain tumor researchers seeking to understand if certain patients are likely to respond to treatment known as adoptive cellular therapy, a type of immunotherapy in which T cells are infused into a patient to help fight cancer. The study, […]
UF Researchers Earn Grant to Test New Form of DBS to Treat Essential Tremor
University of Florida neuroscientists will test the effectiveness of a new motion-activated type of deep brain stimulation (DBS) aimed at improving treatment for patients with severe essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary shaking and usually worsens over time. Current DBS therapies for patients with severe essential tremor are continuous, or always-on, which can […]
Dopamine Signaling Examination Method Promises New Insights
In a new study of human blood samples, a neuroscience research team led by Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., Pharm.D., an associate professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at UF’s College of Medicine, and graduate research assistant Adithya Gopinath demonstrated a novel approach to examine markers of dopamine signaling in peripheral immune cells. The study, published in the […]
Neuroimmunology Expert Featured at Neuroscience 2019 Press Conference
Malú Tansey, Ph.D., director of UF’s Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, was among a select group of experts to present during a press conference at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual conference in Chicago. Participants explained their research on gut-brain communication via the immune system that may help in the development of novel treatments […]
New Study Shows Modified T Cells Enhance Effectiveness of Immunotherapy in Tumors
In a new cell-culture and mouse-model study, a research team at the McKnight Brain Institute led by UF’s Jianping Huang, M.D., Ph.D., and Linchun Jin, M.D., Ph.D., demonstrated a novel technique using the injection of genetically modified cells to enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy to halt or even shrink late-stage solid tumors. In the study, […]
Combating Cancer
Scientists are using powerful magnets to learn how to better detect, treat and track the second leading cause of death worldwide, cancer. Dr. Duane Mitchell, co-director of the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy and director of the UF Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, shared his findings with Fields, a magazine about high […]