A learning technique that maximizes the brain’s ability to make and store memories may help overcome cognitive issues seen in fragile X syndrome, a leading form of intellectual disability, according to UC Irvine neurobiologists.
Since joining UC Irvine in 2007 to launch the nursing science program, Ellen Olshansky has flourished as a highly respected county leader for community-based research and women’s health policy. And much of it started at her kitchen table five years ago. There, in her University Hills home, Olshansky brought together Susan Bryant and Karol Gottfredson […]
A UCI psychiatric researcher is playing a key role in a global initiative to analyze data acquired from the human brain. Theo van Erp, assistant professor of psychiatry & human behavior, is co-chair of the schizophrenia working group for the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta-Analysis project.
School of Medicine claims 14 of 77 new hires
Ivan Soltesz, Chancellor’s Professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology at UC Irvine, is among some 100 researchers being honored Sept. 30 at a White House ceremony for the BRAIN Initiative.
Brain inflammation can rapidly disrupt our ability to retrieve complex memories of similar but distinct experiences, according to UC Irvine neuroscientists Jennifer Czerniawski and John Guzowski.
UC Irvine has placed first in Sierra magazine’s eighth annual ranking of the country’s “Coolest Schools,” marking the fifth consecutive year the university has been included among the top 10 “greenest” campuses nationwide.
Irvine, Calif., July 31, 2014 — Much of the liver’s metabolic function is governed by circadian rhythms – our own body clock – and UC Irvine researchers have now found two independent mechanisms by which this occurs. The study, published online today in Cell, reveals new information about the body clock’s sway over metabolism and […]
A therapy combining salmon fibrin injections into the spinal cord and injections of a gene inhibitor into the brain restored voluntary motor function impaired by spinal cord injury, scientists at UC Irvine’s Reeve-Irvine Research Center have found.
Director of UCI’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program prods students to learn from the world beyond the classroom