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conference room at at Optum Health Care Center.

All are welcome. Topics include the healthy brain, Alzheimer’s disease, the importance of research participation, the history of Alzheimer’s disease, prevalence, risk reducing factors and current research findings.

The team from UCI Mind will also discuss how to implement healthy lifestyle practices to protect the brain as people age and reduce the risk for memory problems later in life.

UCI Mind is a research center designated by the National Institutes of Health with the goal of advancing the treatment, prevention, diagnosis and care for Alzheimer’s. For more than 30 years, it has been at the forefront of Alzheimer’s disease research.

The faculty is specifically seeking to understand the causes leading to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia and Huntington’s disease.

For more information, visit mind.uci.edu.

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