Nursing mind and memory
Ruth Mulnard, founding faculty member in UCI’s nursing science program, leads clinical trials to help Alzheimer’s patients.
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UC Irvine Advisory: Wolpe
Paul Root Wolpe, Center for Ethics director at Emory University, will address “Is My Mind Mine? Mind Reading, Memory Suppression & Other Challenges of Neuroscience” as part of the Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture Series.
Medical school dean’s singular focus: healing
Dr. Ralph Clayman brings surgical precision and a singular focus on healing to his new role as medical school dean.
New stroke therapy successful in rats
People with impaired mobility after a stroke soon may have a therapy that restores limb function long after the injury, if a supplemental protein works as well in humans as it does in paralyzed rats.
Neuron stroke
People with impaired mobility after a stroke soon may have a therapy that restores limb function long after the injury, if a supplemental protein works as well in humans as it does in paralyzed rats.
Patient advocate
Levity, gossip and idle chitchat have no place in Dr. Ralph Clayman’s operating room. The pioneer in minimally invasive surgery once asked a gabby colleague to leave in the middle of an operation because the chatterbox lacked focus. Clayman, a urologist so dedicated he gives his home phone number to patients, makes no apologies for […]
Compound created to boost anti-inflammatory fat levels
UC Irvine pharmacology researchers have discovered a way to boost levels of a natural body fat that helps decrease inflammation, pointing to possible new treatments for allergies, illnesses and injuries related to the immune system.
Hope for Huntington’s patients
Leslie M. Thompson has her eye on a treatment for the fatal Huntington’s disease. Stem cells may hold the key.
MS pioneer and former medicine dean Dr. Stanley van den Noort dies at 79
Dr. Stanley van den Noort (pictured), a former dean of medicine at UC Irvine and a pioneer in multiple-sclerosis education,…
Race against the clock
Ask UC Irvine neuroscientist Leslie M. Thompson to describe how Huntington’s disease affects patients, and she replies by turning to her computer. “I can show you,” she says. She clicks on a video of patients she visited in Venezuela. On-screen, a middle-aged man stands on a street corner, swaying as if intoxicated. A woman, no […]