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A new cover for SUPER AGERS after making the NYT bestseller list. Thanks to you for making it the #1 ranked new non-fiction book on Amazon. amazon.com/gp/new-release…

In Science Magazine today, my essay on predicting and preventing Alzheimer's disease (open-access) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We're excited to share that UF Medicine faculty member Barry Byrne was appointed president-elect of ASGCT! Dr. Byrne will first serve as Vice President this year before moving up to the presidential position in 2027. Read all about it at go.ufl.edu/xohmfzy.

Another hallmark of #Alzheimer is misfolded Tau. Everything in🟡in this image is dying neurons in the human hippocampus, a major region of memory processing. This brain is from a donor with advanced AD. Healthy neurons 🔵, nuclei🟣. It's still #FluorescenceFriday in California😁.

May 15–June 15 is #TouretteAwarenessMonth 💙 Read how UF grad Lorenzo Tiozzo is using film + advocacy to break stigma & inspire change: fixel.ufhealth.org/2025/05/29/tou… Or visit the Fixel website and click “News” at the top.

Or the effect of a GLP-1 drug in the experimental model

The successful testing and validation of Automated Imaging Differentiation for Parkinsonism suggest its integration within the diagnostic workup of 3 commonly encountered neurodegenerative parkinsonian disorders. ja.ma/4mMkV8y

What happens when there is rust in the brain's wires and cells? We continue to struggle with understanding iron and neuroferroptosis and whether there will be an 'iron age' of the brain and disease? The just published paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience by Lei, Walker and Layton

“It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to life — our objective must also be to add new life to those years.” This quote from John F. Kennedy has stayed with me — and I thought of it again while reading a powerful new book I loved: “Super Agers” by

How does weather impact Parkinson's? Does living 1-3 miles from a golf course affect your Parkinson's risk? These stories and more in this month's free Fixel Movement Messenger. If you don't follow us Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases on all our social media channels you are missing our daily

NEW STUDY: 12 years of data from 12,000 adults aged 50+ indicates that people with stronger grip strengths have a 45% lower risk of dying! 💪 prevention.com/health/a648925…

The microbiome revolution: will it be a new frontier in clinical care? As a neurologist deeply invested in the evolving landscape of medicine, I find the recent publication by Porcari and colleagues in Cell both timely and one day may be transformative. Their work underscores the

Lifting weights reverses muscle aging.

NEW STUDY: Eating colorful foods that contain flavonoids is associated with lower mortality —i It’s Xenohomesis in action! nature.com/articles/s4301…

APOE4 E4/E4 yields a 60% lifetime risk of #Alzheimers by age 85. E3/E3 does not affect risk. Why the difference? Although amyloid and tau PET look similar, there is a rapid and early Aβ42-to-amyloid conversion in E4/E4, depleting CSF Aβ42 levels. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Plastamination nation: Are plastics fueling a rise in Parkinson’s? The latest piece in the journal Movement Disorders sounds a possibly urgent alarm: the plastics all around us, from microplastics in our food to nanoplastics in our air, may be doing more than polluting the

New DLB study led by Drs. Melissa Armstrong & Bhavana Patel (UF Fixel Institute) + collaborators from other institutions highlights key sex differences in early symptoms. 📖 alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al… #DLB #Neurodegeneration #FixelInstitute

Thank you to everyone Center For Brain Circuit Therapeutics for the cake and the surprise celebration. Even bigger thank you to the 10k people who cited this paper!

How does the cerebellum orchestrate our movements? A cool new study by Liu and colleagues just published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, uncovers the cerebellum's pivotal role in precisely coordinating our movements. It does this by encoding motor frequencies w/ remarkable