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child development

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 […]

Alana LeBrón (left) and Jun Wu (right).

UC Irvine receives grant to study lead exposure effects on children’s learning, behavior

Santa Ana-based project continues past successful community-academic partnership

Tallie Z. Baram

Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain’s reward circuits, promoting disorders

UC Irvine discovery offers new therapeutic target for treating mental illness

Dr. Tallie Z. Baram

UCI research finds parents’ unpredictable behavior may impair optimal brain circuit formation

Disrupted development increases vulnerability to mental illness, substance abuse

Sirui Wan

UCI doctoral candidate dissects an age-old question: math or language?

Sirui Wan examines when students start to specialize and how that affects their futures

Stephen Schueller

UCI leads development of drop-in mental wellness centers for O.C. youth

Multiple county partners collaborate to implement innovative allcove care model

Candice Odgers (left), UCI professor of psychological science, and Gillian Hayes, UCI vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate Division

Jacobs Foundation awards UCI $11 million to improve digital technologies for children

University-led international network of leading scholars will work to advance learning

Bullied youths’ coping strategies can affect their long-term health, UCI-led study finds

How individuals cope with experiences of peer victimization can mitigate the associated negative short- and long-term physical and mental health effects, according to a recent study led by Michael A. Hoyt, Ph.D., UCI associate professor of public health. More than 800 college students responded to a questionnaire asking them to recall high school incidents of […]

Study: Hormones, perceived physical changes during puberty differ over sociodemographics

Sociodemographic characteristics such as sex, education, ethnicity, race and income are associated with both salivary hormone levels and self-reported physical changes related to puberty, according to a recent study published in the online journal Frontiers in Endocrinology. Lead author Kristina Uban, UCI assistant professor of public health; co-lead author Megan Herting of USC; and other […]

Mark Warschauer, UCI professor of education and informatics sitting on surrounded by stacks of books with computer screens on top.

K-12 post-pandemic classroom: reading, writing, recovery

UCI professor of education discusses COVID-19’s lasting impact