Coping with memory impairment during the holidays
School of Biological Sciences Dean Frank La Ferla offers advice for family members
December 24, 2021
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UCI-led meta-analysis identifies hypertension medications that help ward off memory loss
People taking drugs that cross the blood-brain barrier experienced less cognitive decline
June 21, 2021
New mouse model provides first platform to study late-onset Alzheimer’s disease
First-of-its-kind advance holds promise for making new strides in research, treatments
April 27, 2021
NIH awards over $100 million to examine biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome
Project aims to improve quality of life of aging populations
October 22, 2020
UCI MIND awarded $14.4 million NIH grant to continue critical Alzheimer’s disease research, education
UCI MIND, the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders at UCI, has been awarded a $14.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, to sustain critical research and education as Orange County’s only Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The NIA funds only 32 of these centers at […]
August 04, 2020
Exploring humanity’s final frontier
UCI Brain Launch Event kicks off an ambitious campus effort to expand the horizons of neuroscience research
November 26, 2019
The Alzheimer’s crunch
With jump in patients expected, new leader of clinical research operations at UCI MIND aims to accelerate translation of discoveries into effective treatments
November 22, 2019
Dementia developments
Co-hosted by UCI MIND, the 30th Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference will share recent discoveries
October 10, 2019
Leslie Thompson gets $6 million CIRM grant to advance Huntington’s disease treatments
Leslie Thompson of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and UCI MIND has been awarded $6 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to continue her CIRM-supported efforts to create stem cell treatments for Huntington’s disease. The funding will allow the Thompson lab to conduct the late-stage testing needed to apply […]
January 30, 2019
UCI MIND gets grant to identify compounds that reduce brain damage seen in Alzheimer’s
The UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Orange County Community Foundation’s S.L. Gimbel Foundation Fund. The money will support the testing of 1,200+ FDA-approved compounds to gauge their effectiveness in preventing microglia from destroying brain synapses. Such damage “is seen frequently in patients with Alzheimer’s […]
October 26, 2018