2020 URI Brain Fair: Saturday, March 21 | 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Save the date for the fourth annual URI Brain Fair! Details will be posted soon on this page. Highlights from the 2019 URI Brain Fair On March 16, 2019, our third annual URI Brain Fair drew hundreds of kids and adults to […]
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Brain Week Rhode Island
Join us as we celebrate Brain Week Rhode Island (March 9 – 17) with two great events: Superfoods for a Healthy Gut and Brain Thursday, March 14 • 5:30 p.m. Beaupre Center for Chemical & Forensic Sciences, Room 100 Free and open to the public. No registration required. Nearby parking is in Beaupre lot (13). […]
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Decades of Research Lead to Clinical Trial
New Transgenic Model enables CAA and Alzheimer’s research
A novel transgenic rat model may enable better understanding of amyloid buildup in cerebral blood vessels and help researchers gain new insights on cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from the Van Nostrand lab.
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A study is underway at URI to assess how technology could help people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers more easily access relevant nutrition information
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Alzheimer’s Prevention Registries are databases containing the contact information, and sometimes limited medical information, for individuals willing to consider participating in trials that are designed to prevent (as opposed to treat) the disease. These trials may involve lifestyle interventions, such as exercise or diet modifications, or medications. Participation in a trial is not a requirement […]
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FACULTY Q&A Meet William Van Nostrand, Ph.D. The Hermann Professor of Neuroscience reflects on the serendipity of science, what’s next in his research, and what we still don’t know about exercise. BILL VAN NOSTRAND WAS a grad student in biochemistry at University of California, Irvine, when he was tasked with isolating and characterizing an unknown […]
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FACULTY Q&A Early Impact Professor Nasser Zawia on “the critical window” during brain development, why minority populations are more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s, and the secret to staying motivated. AS A KID, PROFESSOR NASSER ZAWIA wondered endlessly about the big questions: the history of the universe, human existence, and life as we know it—an ongoing fascination […]
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FACULTY Q&A Steps Forward Assistant Professor Katharina Quinlan investigates the mysteries of ALS. KATHARINA QUINLAN WAS a freshman at Marquette University, just starting her first day of a summer research job, when she saw something she would never forget. Her professor, studying locomotor networks in lampreys, had isolated the spinal cord from a fish. […]
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