Join us Friday Friday June 18th at 9:00 AM for a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Manly, of Columbia University. Dr. Manly is among the leaders in the field on the mechanisms of disparities in cognitive aging and dementia. Dr. Manly partners with Black and Latinx communities around the country…
UF will be a study site for the Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training, or PACT, Adam J. Woods, Ph.D. will serve as the principal investigator for UF’s study site.
Dr. Jeff Boissoneault from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has been selected as a 2021 recipient of the Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors! Congratulations Dr. Boissoneault!…
Two new studies offer insights into differing types of cognitive symptoms that can develop in some people with Parkinson’s disease who do not have dementia.
Priscilla Amofa, Nicole Evangelista, and Francesca Lopez were accepted to attend the NIH-funded Advanced Psychometric Methods in Cognitive Aging Research Conference held in August 2021. The overall mission of the conference is to expose leaders in the field and early-stage investigators to state-of-the-science psychometric and data analytic methods for use…
A new study examined brain areas associated with chronic pain and Alzheimer’s disease. Study’s lead author Jared Tanner, Ph.D., a research assistant professor of clinical and health psychology in the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions, part of UF Health,…
Please join the E&A committee on Friday, April 23rd at 12:00pm to further discuss how to be a better ally to our friends who identify as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) via Zoom. https://ufl.zoom.us/my/loriwaxenberg…
Their respective publications were selected as the first place and the runner-up winners in the sixth annual TCN/AACN Student Project competition. The journal, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, received over 40 submissions from graduate students and post-docs. From these, 12 manuscripts were accepted for publication and subsequently rated by reviewers from the…
March 31st from 1pm to 2pm, please welcome Dr. Sharon Inouye a professor from Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Medicine, & Director of Aging Brain Center, Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, who will be to speaking with us virtually about Delirium in Older Adults: Inter-Relationship with Dementia. Dr. Inouye is an internationally recognized leader in geriatric…
Erin Ferguson, MS has received funding for an NIH F31 Kirschstein Individual Research Fellowship Diversity award for her dissertation research entitled “Impact of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness on Demand for Alcohol and Marijuana among Co-Users.” Funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the overall goal of…
