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Science Closing in on Mystery of Age-Related Memory Loss, Says UAB Neurobiologist
The world’s scientific community may be one step closer to understanding age-related memory loss, and to developing a drug that might help boost memory.
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New UAB Study Sheds Light on Brain’s Response to Distress, Unexpected Events
In a new study, psychologists at UAB are able to see in detail for the first time how various regions of the human brain respond when people experience an unexpected or traumatic event.
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$10 Million Endowment Established for UAB’s McKnight Brain Institute
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation, of Orlando, Fla., are establishing a $10 million endowment for the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at UAB to support the institute and the Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging.
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UAB Launches Neuroscience Major
It is our pleasure to announce a new and very special major at the University of Alabama at Birmingham: Neuroscience.
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UAB Professor Researches Historic Birmingham Neighborhoods
UAB Professor Pamela Sterne King tells the story of one of Birmingham's oldest neighborhoods, Fountain Heights, through historic preservation.
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Dr. Jones Field Work in Fiji
The National Science Foundation has developed an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) grant competition that provides funding to universities that create opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to participate in "hands-on" scientific research.
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Remodeling the Brain
This week, BlazerCast features a rehabilitation therapy developed by a UAB neuroscientist which produces changes in the structure of the brain, the first evidence of actual brain remodeling resulting from a rehabilitation therapy.
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Green Dreams: Birmingham Park Plans Bloom Again
Call it an industrial evolution. Birmingham, once smothered in smoke and soot, could soon be covered in green—and reign as the nation's number-one city in park land per capita.
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