Department of Brain Health News
The UNLV Department of Brain Health will advance research, education, and practice to benefit brain health and the care and treatment of people with brain disorders across the life span. Our faculty specialize in several areas that range from basic and clinical research in neurodegenerative disease, neuropsychology, and occupational therapy.
Current Brain Health News
A collection of news stories featuring stargazing and change at UNLV.
A collection of news stories featuring collaboration and reflection at UNLV.
Study, published this month in Communications Biology, reveals that chronic hyperglycemia impairs memory.
A collection of news stories highlighting community and perseverance at UNLV.
Program to help fill critical health care shortage in Nevada; living lab in Las Vegas Medical District houses program, with first cohort set to graduate in Spring 2023.
A collection of news stories highlighting research, health, and community at UNLV.
Brain Health In The News
The director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas detailed the steps necessary to lower wasted costs from Alzheimer disease drug development and improve regulatory success.
This year has been a major year in the field of Alzheimer disease (AD), with several promising therapies moving forward and the first FDA approval in almost 2 decades.
It’s called the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at UNLV, and the adjective in the name says it all.
The director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas discussed new data that highlights wasted expenditures from Alzheimer trials and the importance of understanding their impacts.
Pharmacological studies have attempted and failed for past decades to generate medicines that might halt the course of the illness. Now, experts claim to have reached a tipping point in Alzheimer's development.
The cause of Alzheimer’s was supposedly simple.
