brain circuits

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 […]

UC Irvine discovery offers new therapeutic target for treating mental illness

Findings will advance development of better early diagnostic tools, new treatment strategies

Disrupted development increases vulnerability to mental illness, substance abuse