University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla.— After years of believing that brain damage from strokes and other injuries was irreversible, researchers are growing optimistic that with the right combination of medicine and rehabilitation, they can inspire the brain to form new pathways to regain some lost functions.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—An international team of scientists has reversed some of the effects of Parkinson’s disease in rats with a drug-induced form of the progressive movement disorder.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—University of Florida researchers have hit upon a simple way for physicians to gauge whether patients are taking their medications as prescribed: Pick up the phone and call their pharmacist.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gifted students tend to have more active imaginations than average students, and gifted girls are almost twice as likely as gifted boys to prefer imagination to practicality, a new University of Florida study shows.