Drs. Kevin Beier and Elizabeth Head, both faculty members of UCI MIND, along with co-investigators Drs. Liz Chrastil and Jing Zhang have been awarded a 4 year NIH grant to study how hyperexcitability in neurons in a unique brain region (the retrospenial cortex thought to be a candidate site where AD pathology begins) contributes to the development of behavioral deficits in 3 mouse models of AD and what the molecular mechanisms are that underlie this effect. To translate their results to AD in...