Institute Research Highlights

2008

•Vitamin B3 reduces Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice.

•Carl W. Cotman receive lifetime achievement award for his research on Alzheimer’s disease

•Male and female brains age differently

•Women over 90 more likely to have dementia than men

•Kawas profiled in UCI Magazine on Extreme Aging

•Alzheimer’s vaccine clears plaque but has little effect on learning and memory impairment

•Lithium chloride slows onset of skeletal muscle disorder in mice

2007

•Stem cells can improve memory after brain lesions

•Diets enriched in omega-3 (DHA) may help prevent Alzheimer’s brain lesions

•Learning slows physical progression of Alzheimer’s disease

•New ways of sorting stem cells

2006

•For elderly, extra pounds may lower mortality rates

•LaFerla profiled on UCI magazine

•Stress hastens progression of Alzheimer’s disease

•Different forms of Aß harm neurons in different ways

•Blocking Alzheimer’s disease with a small molecule compound

•Memories: it’s all in the packaging

•Brain activity that sets the stage for retaining memories

•Men’s and women’s brains behave differently, even at rest

2005

•Folates more effective in limiting Alzheimer’s disease risk than antioxidants, other nutritents

•Smoking hastens Alzheimer’s lesion in mice

•Onset of memory disorders identified in mice

•Combination treatment may help in Huntington’s disease

•Drug that 'tags' decision-making areas of the brain may aid battle against nicotine addiction, Alzheimer's and other disorders

2004

•Identification of protein trigger may lead to development for Huntington’s disease

•Early clinical treatment can halt Alzheimer’s pathology

2003

•UCI researchers create first mouse model with both signature lesions of Alzheimer’s disease

•Free radicals may help degrade motor neurons— implications for Lou Gehrig’s disease

•Important similarity among Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other degenerative diseases

2002

•Jogging every day may keep Alzheimer’s away

•UCI team creates mouse model of degenerative muscle disease

2001

•Early stage of Alzheimer’s disease identified in Down syndrome

2000

•Estrogen has no effect on course of Alzheimer’s disease in women