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Alzheimer’s disease

Elizabeth Head, M.A., Ph.D. Professor, Vice Chair for Research Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Elizabeth Andrews, grad student

Women with Down syndrome may develop Alzheimer's disease more rapidly than men

UC Irvine study finds sex differences may impact treatment approaches

UC Irvine researchers find combination of natural compounds for brain cleaning

Treatment removes harmful protein buildup associated with Alzheimer’s disease

UC Irvine expands national leadership in Alzheimer's research with $21 million grant

UCI MIND secures National Institute on Aging funding for 5 more years to further discovery

Aaron Bornstein

Detecting dementia earlier

With $4 million grant, UC Irvine researcher seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability

Max Garduño

Achieving the ‘unachievable'

Doctoral student credits colleagues and donors for his development as neuroscientist

Neha Gujjula (left), a third-year neurobiology major, and Kaitlin To, a third-year ecology and evolutionary biology major, are co-presidents of the Brain Exercise Initiative’s UC Irvine chapter.

Use it or lose it

Student members of the Brain Exercise Initiative work to improve cognition among residents of senior living facilities

Michael Yassa, right, with co-authors Bryce Mander and Destiny Berisha.

Study links REM sleep apnea to brain changes, memory loss in older adults

UC Irvine researchers find that low oxygen levels may injure critical cerebral regions

UC Irvine professors Mathew Blurton-Jones (left) and Robert Spitale

Engineered microglia show promise for treating Alzheimer's, other brain diseases

UC Irvine team develops cell-based platform for brain-wide delivery of therapeutic agents

Kei Igarashi, UC Irvine associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology, is awarded the 41st Inoue Prize for Science by Atsushi Koma, president of the Inoue Foundation.

UC Irvine School of Medicine associate professor awarded Inoue Prize for Science

Kei Igarashi recognized for outstanding achievement in memory and dementia research

UC Irvine’s Thai B. Nguyen, Leslie Thompson and Robert Spitale (from left).

UC Irvine-led team discovers potential new therapeutic targets for Huntington's disease

Molecular mechanisms revealed that drive RNA processing defects leading to disorder