Managed Healthcare Executive – March 17, 2022 According to the CDC, about 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease …. “These numbers are projected to increase because elderly individuals are the…
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UCI MIND Director Dr. Josh Grill is giving a talk on Zoom about Dementia Care, hosted by Happy 50 Plus, on March 24, 2022 from 4-5:30 PM. He will be…
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90+ Study: Learning from the oldest-old Researchers can learn a lot about how Alzheimer’s develops by studying people at increased risk. People older than age 90, or the oldest-old, are…
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The American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has named Dr. Kenneth Chang, board-certified UCI Health gastroenterologist and executive director of the UCI Health Digestive Health Institute, a Crystal Awards Master…
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UCI Health has earned accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC), becoming one of only 45 rectal cancer programs in the nation and the first in Orange…
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This International Women’s Day, UCI MIND remains committed to understanding why almost two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women. Research conducted in partnership with Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement, whos...
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The Winter 2022 edition of UCI Magazine features UCI MIND researchers, including David Sultzer, MD, Michael Yassa, PhD, and more! Read the latest edition of UCI Magazine here > The…
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IN THE NEWS: UCI Health launched its COVID-19 recovery program last April to address prolonged COVID-19 symptoms. Since then, with each new variant and surge in positive cases, more patients…
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March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In the U.S., excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women and the second…
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Contributed by Elizabeth Head, Josh Grill, and Ira Lott People with Down syndrome are at high risk for developing Alzheimer disease beginning after the age of 40 years. This is…
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Discover Magazine: Aging dogs can develop canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD), sometimes known as “doggie dementia.” The brains of dogs with CCD show only amyloid beta plaques, not tau tangles, but their…
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Contributed by Christian Salazar, PhD Black Americans are more likely than White Americans to be afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. This may be of no surprise considering that some of the…
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Contributed by Hayk Davtyan, Ph.D. and Christel Claes, Ph.D. While the word “mutation” may conjure up alarming notions, a mutation in brain immune cells serves a positive role in protecting…
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Renewal recognizes UCI’s dedication to patient care and active engagement in research to develop new therapeutic approaches February 15, 2022 “Renewal of certification as a Huntington’s Disease Society of America…
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In a scientific first, UCI researchers have discovered fundamental mechanisms by which the hippocampus region of the brain organizes memories into sequences and how this can be used to plan future behavior.…
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UCI MIND #InTheNews: Forbes: “According to UCI, the new center will involve collaborations across seven areas: SMART (statistics, machine learning-artificial intelligence) designs software to integrate and analyze health records, molecular data,…
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UCI MIND #InTheNews @Seniors Matter – Feb. 9, 2022 “People who engaged in more healthy behaviors had a lower risk than people with fewer because all of these things…
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We are pleased to announce that the in-person support group meetings for families who are caring for individuals living with Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease are resuming next month in…
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“The university already has well-established and influential centers for Alzheimer’s disease and #dementia (UCI MIND)…that are potentially poised to benefit from Burnand’s philanthropy. …During her lifetime, she supported #Alzheimers ...
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