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Can Brain Training Computerized Games Help Evaporate Brain Fog from Long COVID?

UConn Center on Aging and the Department of Psychiatry researchers are working to answer this public health threat question by launching a clinical trial for older adults using at home, brain-training games on computer tablets as a Long COVID patient therapy

Research into Responsible Gaming

UConn School of Medicine researchers will now examine responsible gaming and its best practices for Connecticut’s rapidly changing gaming landscape including growth of online gambling.

Teamwork Keeps UConn Health Moving

Meet UConn Health Storekeeper Antoinette Santiago who is “the face” of UConn Health for many as she is the receiver of the academic medical center’s numerous deliveries to the West Dock

Hospital OB/GYN Residents from Across the State Gather at UConn to Share Their Research Findings

On September 28 UConn Health and its UConn School of Medicine hosted the 11th Annual State of Connecticut Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents’ Research Day.

UConn’s First Global Oncology Program

The program's leader is UConn Health Hematologist/Oncologist Dr. Victoria Forbes of the Carole & Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center who is working to ensure cancer care is available to all, no matter where they live.

Dr. Kevin Staveley-O’Carroll Named Next UConn Health Chair of Surgery

Dr. Staveley-O’Carroll, an NIH-funded oncology surgeon-scientist, joins UConn this December.

UConn School of Medicine and Hartford HealthCare Renew and Grow Their Longstanding Academic Training Collaborations

Hartford HealthCare and UConn have had a nearly 60 year academic clinical training relationship, and just renewed another five-year academic affiliation

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month: Meet Neurologist Dr. Amanda Hernandez

“UConn Health is here for the Latinx community," shares Dr. Amanda Hernandez during Hispanic Heritage month September 15 to October 15 and always whether for your health care or your medical education training.

Remembering 9/11: UConn Health Professor Emeritus and Red Cross Volunteer Larry Klobutcher Continues to Give Back

Klobutcher continues to make a difference volunteering with the Red Cross which in honor of 9/11 this September encourages everyone to take steps this month to make your home safer by testing or replacing your smoke alarms.

UConn’s Justin Cotney, Ph.D. to be Honored for Research Excellence by Society for Craniofacial Genetics & Developmental Biology

Cotney will be honored on October 10 at the Society’s 46th annual meeting for his research enhancing the understanding of craniofacial development and disease.