(By Anastasia Brodovskaya, postdoctoral fellow in neurology, and Jaideep Kapur, professor of neuroscience and neurology) Many people with epilepsy also experience memory problems. Patients often experience retrograde amnesia, where they cannot remember what happened immediately before their seizure. Electroconvulsive therapy, a form of treatment for major depression that intentionally triggers small seizures, can also cause retrograde amnesia. So why do seizures often cause memory loss?
Earlier Monday, Virginia coach Tony Elliott said his Cavaliers would play a few times on non-traditional days during the week in his first season at the helm of the program. He had an advanced look at UVA’s full slate ahead of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s schedule release show Monday night on ACC Network. And his first conference game as Hoos coach will be played on a Friday.
He was diligent and thorough in the pursuit of assembling his initial staff. Virginia coach Tony Elliott needed more than a month after he was introduced as the Cavaliers’ headman to complete the task of hiring assistant coaches. “It took probably a lot longer than some people wanted, but I wanted to make sure that I got the right pieces on the bus,” Elliott said, “and in the right seats so we can hit the ground running with this over this upcoming year.”
At the University of Virginia Medical Center, software has reduced room cleaning time by 25-30%, since fewer workers are needed. The savings from the increased efficiency have been used to buy more UV light cleaning technology, which in turn, reduces health care-associated infections.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is teaming up with a Waynesboro family to help others going through a devastating diagnosis a bit easier. The Henke family had its life turned upside down after a shocking diagnosis for their now-7-month-old son, Max. Now they’re working hard to help other families avoid the financial hardship that an infantile spasms diagnosis can cause.
The term “Culture War” began to be used in the United States in the 1920s when urban and rural American values were at odds with the interwar wave of immigration. However, the term would gain traction during the early 1990s, when James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, reintroduced the expression in his 1991 publication, “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.” Hunter described what he saw as a dramatic realignment and polarization that had transformed American politics and culture. It was there that the range of issues expanded to gay rights and abortion righ...
UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Services has a Demographics Research Group that forecasts population both by state and nationally. The group recently forecast population by state and age. One set of figures predicts population by state in 2040.
One data model is predicting the commonwealth will see a steep decline in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks, but the Virginia Department of Health says that doesn’t mean we should loosen restrictions. “People do need to take some responsibility and try and avoid infecting other people,” Bryan Lewis with the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute said. VDH and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute both suggest we may have just passed the peak of the omicron variant. This is based on past models that have been accurate on predicting trends, but not exact numbers.
The University of Virginia will be testing the components of its Emergency Notification System on Tuesday.
Stanford White’s creations can be found outside New York City. He designed Rosecliff and several other houses in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Frederick Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New York. The firm’s Boston buildings included the Algonquin Club, the Boston Public Library, Harvard Stadium, and the Symphony Hall. His work on the University of Virginia is considered one of his few misfires.
For governments that need help developing better data resources, universities, regional centers and organizations devoted to equity topics provide invaluable assistance. In Virginia, Albemarle County, which surrounds Charlottesville, developed an Equity Profile, in collaboration with the Equity Center at the University of Virginia. The profile was one product of a larger partnership with the Equity Center and many other community partners that also included the development of a Regional Equity Atlas, which is designed to “combine, visualize, and make accessible data about local disparities.”
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University of Virginia president Jim Ryan said in a message Monday about the attorney general’s opinion that “the issue is moot for us at UVA, at least for the time being. Our deadline for the vaccine/booster mandate has passed, and we are grateful to report that over 99 percent of students have complied with our vaccine and booster requirements,” Ryan wrote. “Because we have such a small number of students who have not yet received the booster, we decided early last week–based on the advice of our student affairs team–that we will not disenroll students who have not yet received their booster...
Virginia Tech, George Mason University and the University of Virginia announced Monday that they’re dropping their COVID-19 vaccination requirement for students to attend in person or to enroll in light of last week’s legal opinion issued by state Attorney General Jason Miyares.
It’s become a semiannual hurdle for colleges in Virginia: when classes begin, thousands of students return to campus, and a rise in COVID-19 cases follows. Thanks to omicron, the start of the spring 2022 semester has been no different. But this time, as colleges see their cases rise, they are ending the policies that require students and employees be vaccinated. At least four universities – Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason – announced Monday they had ended their student vaccine requirements, in light of an opinion released Friday by A...
One by one, Virginia’s public universities appear to be falling into line with an opinion from the state’s new Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, that they are not legally authorized to require students to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The University of Virginia, meanwhile, said it would no longer threaten to disenroll students this semester who do not get a vaccine booster shot.
Three years after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, an unplanned stop at the University of Virginia led to Dr. Robert Walter “Whirlwind” Johnson taking the first step toward fulfilling his dream of seeing the sport of tennis fully integrated.
A UVA School of Medicine researcher and local biopharmaceutical company have teamed up to develop a new, more effective potential treatment for burns and wound healing.
After weeks of record-setting COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations, researchers at the University of Virginia say the commonwealth appears to have turned the corner.
[UVA-trained] economist Philip Jefferson has called on the Federal Reserve to more closely consider how its policies shape the economic well-being of different groups of Americans. If confirmed for a seat on the central bank’s board, he may soon prod it to do so as it prepares to raise interest rates to combat inflation.
Despite coming up short in the championship match against Ashleigh Barty, [UVA alumna] Danielle Collins should be feeling great about her breakthrough run in Melbourne. And now, she finds herself in the top 10 of the WTA rankings.