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How UVA’s Honor the Future Campaign Helps Turn Ambitions Into Reality

Generosity from friends and supporters has enhanced UVA’s vibrant community, its culture of service, and the collaborative curiosity of its faculty and students.

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How UVA’s Honor the Future Campaign Helps Turn Ambitions Into Reality
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Using Light-Up Skullcaps, Neurologist Is Pioneering an Autism Test for Babies

In Meghan Puglia’s baby lab, mothers and their children have a stimulating way to help researchers learn more about the developing brain – while potentially helping those “on the spectrum.”

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Using Light-Up Skullcaps, Neurologist Is Pioneering an Autism Test for Babies
Poor Bedfellows: Insomnia and Dementia

Poor Bedfellows: Insomnia and Dementia

Up to half of older patients with dementia have insomnia. With a $1.22M NIH grant, prof. Meghan Mattos will test an online intervention that aims to help.

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Poor Bedfellows: Insomnia and Dementia
Where Data Meets Hope

Where Data Meets Hope

The new Virginia Alzheimer’s Disease Center Data Commons is helping researchers like Dr. Carol Manning better understand and treat the neurodegenerative disease.

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Where Data Meets Hope
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STUDY COULD LEAD TO NEW TREATMENTS FOR SWALLOWING DISORDERS

A team of UVA scientists has discovered a neural pathway from the brain to the esophagus that could mean relief from a debilitating and sometimes life-threatening condition.

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Study Could Lead to New Treatments for Swallowing Disorders