The Neuroscience Research Priority Area (NRPA) supports a "collaborative matrix," bringing together diverse groups of investigators, trainees, and research groups from across the University. The impressive depth of neuroscience expertise at UK combined with an engaged community has led to a dynamic and exciting research environment. In support of its mission to develop initiatives that reinforce and promote that success, the NRPA’s guiding strategy is to provide broad-based support to neuroscience researchers across the university.
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The Latest in Neuroscience at UK
Fueling sleep: UK researchers show key metabolic link to restful nights
Scientists have long recognized the brain’s need for energy, but groundbreaking research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has now illuminated how the brain’s energy utilization significantly influences our sleep patterns.
UK researchers uncover hidden barrier to spinal cord injury recovery
Andrew Stewart, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) in the Department of Neuroscience in the UK College of Medicine, is investigating why treatments that could help repair and regenerate the damaged spinal cord stop working shortly after the injury has occurred.
New diagnostic criteria for LATE dementia offers hope for improved dementia care
Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are at the forefront of advancing dementia research with groundbreaking work on a condition known as LATE, or “limbic predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy.”
