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Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute Collaborates on $60M Initiative for the Precision Aging Network

REACTION — Reducing the Effects of Aging on Cognition with Therapeutic Intervention of an Oral Nutrient: An Exploratory Trial

The Comprehensive Center for Brain Health is hosting a movie screening event in conjunction with the Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) on May 18, 2021.

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Want to voice your concerns and thoughts of FTD to the FDA?

Want to voice your concerns and thoughts of FTD to the FDA? Join this one-time opportunity to tell the FDA how urgently treatments are needed for this disease. You can RSVP using this link: theaftd.org/pfdd-rsvp/ ¿Quiere expresar sus preocupaciones y pensamientos sobre FTD a la FDA? Únase a esta oportunidad única de decirle a la FDA […]

Top UM Neurologist Honored with Provost’s Award for Scholarly Activity

Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., M.S., professor and Chair of Neurology and the Olemberg Family Chair in Neurological Disorders, was one of this year’s recipients of the University of Miami’s coveted 2015 Provost’s Award for Scholarly Activity. UM Executive Vice President and Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc presented the awards at a ceremony Friday on the Coral […]

Dr. Philip D. Harvey Makes Presentation on Memory at the Vatican

Philip D. Harvey, Ph.D., Leonard M. Miller Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Miller School, made a presentation at an International Conference on Memory in the Diseased Brain held at Vatican City. The gathering of international memory experts was held under the auspices of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and was focused on […]

Miller School Investigators Receive Grant Awards for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has been awarded more than $900,000 in grant awards from the Florida Department of Health to be used for projects supporting research leading to the prevention or cure of Alzheimer’s disease. “On behalf of all University of Miami School of Medicine investigators, we would like to thank […]

Miller Faculty Members Host Film Screening to Raise Alzheimer’s Awareness

To help raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease, the University of Miami Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neurology and Volunteers of America hosted a screening of the “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” documentary on December 2 at the Regal Cinemas on Miami Beach. The film chronicles Campbell’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease while on the […]

NIH Funds ALS Research Consortium Headed by UM Neurologist

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, have awarded University of Miami Miller School of Medicine neurologist Michael Benatar, M.D., Ph.D., a $6.24 million cooperative agreement award to establish a Rare Diseases Clinical Research Consortium that will study amyotrophic […]

Alberto Ramos, M.D., M.S.P.H. featured speaker at the 2014 Florida Society of Neurology Annual Meeting in Orlando

Alberto Ramos, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor of clinical neurology and Co-Director of the Sleep Disorders Program, was a featured speaker at the 2014 Florida Society of Neurology Annual Meeting in Orlando. In his presentation, titled “Clinical Research in Sleep Disorders,” Ramos discussed recent basic, epidemiologic and clinical research in sleep medicine, how these concepts apply […]

University of Miami Researchers Receive $12.6 Million NIH Grant to Study Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics are part of a five-university collaboration receiving a $12.6 million, four-year grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to identify rare genetic variants that may either protect against, or […]

The Interdisciplinary UM Memory Program 

The UM Memory Program is a new and exciting joint collaboration between the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Neurology and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The program’s co-directors are Clinton Wright, MD and Elizabeth Crocco, MD. They are joined by Dr. Barry Baumel as the attending physicians at the UM […]

University of Miami opens South Florida’s First Brain Fitness Pavilion

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, in collaboration with the Center on Aging at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, opens South Florida’s first Brain Fitness Pavilion.