child development

UC Irvine, other researchers find that children do initially benefit from preschool

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 […]

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

UC Irvine discovery offers new therapeutic target for treating mental illness

Disrupted development increases vulnerability to mental illness, substance abuse

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

Multiple county partners collaborate to implement innovative allcove care model

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

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 […]

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 […]