Please join UCI MIND on Friday, March 9 at Norman P. Murray Senior Center for an ASK THE DOC Q&A session at South OC Senior Day, in partnership with Senator Pat Bates and Assemblyman Bill Brough.
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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 to home. His father, 92 year-old Bill Gates Sr., is &h…
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 by Stan Sholik)
By B.W. Cook
January 16, 2018
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Free community screening reveals how personalized music provides comfort
ORANGE, CA – The public is invited to a free screening of Alive Inside, a documentary that explores the transformative impact of music on people living with a diagnosis of &hellip…
New research partnership aims to better understand the Alzheimer’s gender divide
By Madeline Vann, Caring.com Health Writer
“One of the biggest risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease you may not have heard of? Being a woman.
More women t…
REMIND predoc and postdoc trainees, Sarah Royer, Stefânia Forner, and Alessandra Martini, welcomed 7th and 8th graders to campus today to teach them about brain health and Alzheimer’s disease. The students even had a chance to see their own brain…
UCI MIND Co-Directors, Drs. Joshua Grill and Frank LaFerla with Maria Shriver at the annual UCI MIND gala on December 2, 2017 at the Balboa Bay Resort
More than 5.5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. Two-thirds of them are women. …The p…
The National Institute on Aging has announced funding of a new clinical trial network, charged with testing the most promising potential treatments and preventions for Alzheimer’s disease over the coming years. The $70 million grant includes UCI MIND a…
In a study published today in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, UCI MIND faculty members Claudia Kawas and Maria Corrada, and colleagues at UCLA, reported the first estimates of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) prevale…
by Joshua Grill, PhD
Numerous studies have shown links between lifestyle factors and risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. A new assessment of available studies by investigators at University College in London examines one lifestyle factor,…