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UK HealthCare, Partners Receive Prestigious CDC Grant to Improve Stroke Care, Outcomes in Kentucky

Jun 24, 2021, 7:22 AM

The grant will allow coordination and expansion of existing efforts to improve stroke-related health outcomes.

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New UK Research May Offer Hope for Alzheimer’s Patients

Jun 4, 2021, 6:59 AM

UK Neuroscience Professor Greg Gerhardt's new research program will provide answers to questions about the role of neurotransmitters in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

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University of Kentucky Researchers Discover Fundamental Roles of Glucosamine in Brain

May 26, 2021, 2:41 PM

The discovery could yield a key insight which could have broad implications for understanding neurological changes associated with aging.

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Goldstein Elected to American Academy of Neurology Board of Directors

Apr 16, 2021, 8:33 AM

Goldstein also is co-director of the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, co-director of the UK Neuroscience Research Priority Area and interim director of the UK-Norton Healthcare Stroke Care Network. Goldstein’s two-year term on the board of directors begins later this month.

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Experimental Treatment Shows Promise in Treating Traumatic Brain Injury

Mar 1, 2021, 8:02 PM

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBO) is a treatment that is now being experimentally studied in adult patients with severe traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is a specialized way, using a pressure chamber, to dramatically increase the amount of oxygen delivered to body tissues.

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UK Study Potentially Links Low Blood Amylin Level to Reduced Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

Jan 21, 2021, 8:41 AM

Florin Despa says that a major scientific goal is to understand whether the same factors that are involved in age-related metabolic disorders such as type-2 diabetes may also play a role in the development and progression of cognitive decline and dementia.

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Multi-Million Dollar Multidisciplinary Grant Supports Advancement of Epilepsy Research

Oct 27, 2020, 8:45 AM

A $2.9 million grant from the NIH is supporting a multidisciplinary team of UK researchers in continuing their work to find therapeutic strategies to resolve neurovascular inflammation and repair blood-brain barrier dysfunction in epilepsy.

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10th Annual Sanders-Brown Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia Taking Place Virtually

Oct 27, 2020, 8:23 AM

In the sessions for both the scientific and community audience, attendees will have the opportunity to hear clinicians and researchers from UK and other institutions share current findings, trends, and latest updates on dementia and aging disorders.

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Butterfield Recognized as a Leading Alzheimer’s Expert

Oct 9, 2020, 8:29 AM

Butterfield is among the top 0.007% of scholars worldwide based on authorship of Alzheimer’s-related publications indexed in the PubMed database for the past 10 years. He ranks tenth out of nearly 150,000 scholars worldwide and sixth in the U.S.

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Sanders-Brown Research Discovers New Pathway in TDP-43 Related Dementias

Sep 23, 2020, 9:46 AM

Selenica says their study is the first to provide a novel pathway and identify potential therapeutic targets for TDP-43 proteinopathies – especially in Alzheimer’s disease and the newly characterized form of dementia known as LATE.

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