For more information or to RSVP, contact Frances Saldana: franceshdcare@gmail.com or (714) 593-6205
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Dr. Alon Avidan, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at UCLA, would like to invite clinicians and health care providers to attend the 9th Annual UCLA Sleep CME Course, "State-of-the-Art in Sleep Medicine." The course will take place on Saturday, December 5, 2015, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB) on UCLA's campus. For more information and to register, click here. Course Description Physicians in all areas of medicine encounter patients who complain of disturbed sleep. The purpose of this course, the 9th in its series, is to provide clinicians with…
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Study at UC Irvine to see if exercise can slow down Alzheimer's disease ABC7 - October 3, 2015 "We find that exercise promotes healthy brain aging and improves a person's cognitive function, and basically really makes the people feel better," said Dr. Carl Cotman with UC Irvine. … Cotman will begin recruiting 300 people to take part in the one-year study at UC Irvine. "We'll be looking at generally sedentary people that are willing to commit to that program that are basically 75 and older," said Cotman. full story >
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Orange County Register - September 9, 2015 Dr. Howard Federoff made international news last year after he led a team of researchers in designing a blood test that predicted the development of Alzheimer's disease with 90 percent accuracy. Federoff, 62, who was at Georgetown University at the time, plans to conduct the next phase of study from UC Irvine, where he recently started as vice chancellor of health affairs and dean of the medical school. full article >
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2015 Family Education Series Topic: Advances in Dementia Treatment: Current and Future Medications Time: Tuesday, June 9, 4:30 - 6:30 pm Location: University Club on the University of California, Irvine Campus, 801 University Club, Irvine, CA 92697-5625 Limited Seating Available • Reservations Are Required Register online at: http://familyedseries.eventbrite.com You may also RSVP at (949) 824-2382, press option 4, and leave a message.
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Time of Your Life: The World of Tomorrow - Where Memories Last Forever Time: Saturday, May 16, 2015, 5:30-11:00 pm Location: Newport Beach Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach, CA
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UCI MIND in partnership with the Center for Neurobiology of Learning & Memory is proud to host the 20th UC Irvine Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning and Memory Epigenetics: The Making and Unmaking of Powerful Memories Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 7:30PM Presented by University of California, Irvine professor, Marcelo Wood Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, UCI School of Biological Sciences. The event is free to the public. No tickets or reservations are needed. Parking in the adjacent structure is $10.00. See information below for further details.
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UCI MIND’s Leslie Thompson has worked on Huntington’s disease for over two decades, and her group’s research has revealed extensive insights into the biological underpinnings of the disease. During the week of July 15, her laboratory adds to its impressive log of discoveries. Thompson is the lead author for studies appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cell Reports that identify new and well-defined molecular targets for drugs that can treat the fatal neurodegenerative disease. In the journal Cell Reports, published on July 18, Thompson and colleagues identify how two proteins – SUMO-2 and PIAS1 –…
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Ashley Campbell, daughter of singer Glen Campbell, who has Alzheimer's disease became tearful as she testified before Congress, urging increased support for research. "I think a person's life is comprised of memories, and that's exactly what Alzheimer's disease takes away from you," noted Ashley. "Now when I play banjo with my dad, it's getting harder for him to follow along and it's getting harder for him to recall my name. It's hard to come to the realization that someday my dad might look at me and I will be absolutely nothing to him." To read the testimony of…
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Register Now . . . for the 24th Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Conference, Countdown to 2025: Progress on Ending Alzheimer’s Disease, to be held on Friday, September 20, 2013 at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa. America’s first National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease sets forth the goal of effectively preventing and treating this progressive neurodegenerative disorder by 2025. In the U.S., over 5.4 million people are living with Alzheimer’s disease and a new case is diagnosed every 68 seconds. Unless significant progress is made, at least 13.8 million Americans will have Alzheimer’s disease by 2050, with a new case…
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