UC Irvine News Brief: Anatomy & neurobiology chair to help allocate epilepsy research funds

Ivan Soltesz will co-chair the review panel for the Epilepsy Foundation’s grant and fellowship program.

UC Irvine News Brief: Anatomy & neurobiology postdoc claims prestigious Cajal Club award

Csaba Varga wins the 2010 Cortical Explorer prize for discovering a new principle of cortical microcircuit organization.

UC Irvine News Brief: Soltesz gets grant to study novel ways to halt epileptic seizures

Professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology awarded $1.2 million to research selective use of optical fibers in the brain.

Soltesz awarded top international prize for epilepsy research

Ivan Soltesz, UC Irvine professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology, has been named recipient of the 2009 Michael Prize,…

Soltesz book examines new approaches for epilepsy research

<![CDATA[ Ivan Soltesz, professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology at UC Irvine, is co-editor of a new book titled Computational…]]>

The UCI School of Medicine team members who helped develop new viral vectors that will advance neural circuit mapping include, from left, front row: Michele Wu, Alexis Bouin, Ginny Wu, Qiao Ye and Xiangmin Xu; back row: Todd Holmes, Bert Semler, Orkide Koyuncu and Liqi Tong.

UC Irvine-led research team creates novel rabies viral vectors for neural circuit mapping

New tools can detect microstructural changes in aging and Alzheimer’s disease brain neurons

Dr. Mark Fisher, professor of neurology in UCI’s School of Medicine

UC Irvine-led study is first to find brain hemorrhage cause other than injured blood vessels

Discovery deepens understanding of cerebral microbleeds, may offer new therapeutic targets

Tallie Z. Baram

UCI awarded grant to study sex-specific brain pathway responses to stress

UCI has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the sex-specific differences in circuits that connect the brain’s stress and reward centers. Building on the earlier discovery of how brain circuit operation is disrupted by exposure to early-life adversity, researchers will study the emergence of gender as […]

Richard Van Etten looking into a microscope

UC Irvine receives record $653 million in research funding for fiscal 2022-23

12.7 percent more than last year, amount reflects strong support for campus mission

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UCI awarded $3.8 million NIH grant to advance BRAIN Initiative research

Funding will help campus become a national center of neuroscience resources