Click here to watch Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement “Move For Minds” event in Los Angeles. UCI MIND faculty member Dr. Ruth Benca joined a renowned panel that included Marcia…
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UCI MIND sends a hearty congratulations to Dr. Frank LaFerla, who has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences.…
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Danny Harper & Burton Young By Danny Harper, Senior Director of Development The faculty and staff of UCI MIND, congratulate Burton Young and his fellow honorees on receiving the Men…
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(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) By Danny Harper, Senior Director of Development, UCI MIND Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans lose friends and loved ones to Alzheimer’s disease. When a celebrity…
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Getty Images This week, Congress finalized the 2018 budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which included a $414 million increase in funding for Alzheimer’s disease research. This brings…
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Contributed by Carl Cotman, PhD, Founding Director of UCI MIND The role of exercise in reducing or slowing Alzheimer’s disease keeps coming up on headlines. Observational studies like the one in…
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Contributed by Bryce Mander, PhD As reported in CNN, a new study published in JAMA Neurology indicates that healthy older adults who are excessively sleepy during the day show a…
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Marcelo Wood, PhD Dr. Marcelo Wood, UCI MIND faculty member and Francisco J. Ayala chair of neurobiology and behavior, and his team have discovered a way to help old and damaged…
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Bill Gates with father, Bill Gates Sr. Charitable billionaire Bill Gates recently announced a $100 million pledge to fight Alzheimer’s disease, but today he reveals why the disease hits close…
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Honoree Maria Shriver with donor and Alzheimer’s research participant Ann Quilter of Laguna Beach, center, and Aimee Pierce, MD, medical director of the UCI MIND Memory Assessment Research Center. (Photo…
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