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child development

UCI professor receives NIH grant to develop model to explain child neurobehavioral disorders

Michael Lee, UCI professor of cognitive sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $81,956 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop mathematical models of brain activity to help understand behaviors in children diagnosed with ADHD and other neurobehavioral disorders. His work is part of a larger study being conducted by Vinod Menon, the director […]

“During this extended quarantine, parents are faced with a near-impossible task of balancing their children’s need for independence and structure with school demands as well as the demands of their own professions, which have only intensified during this period,” says Jessica Borelli, UCI associate professor of psychological science and a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in parent-child relationships. “This leaves many parents at a loss. The current reality is unlike any that families have ever faced before.”

Quarantine parenting

UCI expert offers advice on daily routines, discipline and dealing with schoolwork during pandemic

Dr. Dan Cooper, UCI professor of pediatrics and founding director of the campus’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

Back-to-school jitters

UCI Health pediatrician Dan Cooper gathers a team to help determine how, when and under what conditions K-12 classroom instruction can safely resume

UCI faculty create curricula for kids worldwide confined by coronavirus

U.N.-sponsored Earth School will help children learn about environment

UCI neuroscientist and professor of otolaryngology John Middlebrooks

An improved implant

UCI researchers have developed a breakthrough cochlear device that could enable hearing-impaired people to detect pitch

Grudges before gratitude

Retaliation comes naturally to children, while positive reciprocity must be learned, says UCI cognitive scientist

Adolescents’ view of family social standing correlates with mental health, life outcomes

Perception of high status is linked to easier transition to adulthood, UCI-led study finds

Jodi Quas gets NSF grant to improve protocols for interviewing young sex trafficking victims

Jodi Quas, UCI professor of psychological science, has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to improve protocols for law enforcement officers when questioning adolescent sex trafficking victims. She and Thomas D. Lyon, the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology at USC, will examine several hundred interview […]

UCI receives NSF grant to create and test interactive videos to foster children’s science learning

Conversational agent will be incorporated into a pilot study on a new PBS KIDS animated program

UCI child neurologist Dr. Tallie Z. Baram is awarded $15 million Conte Center grant

NIH funding supports continued research into early-life origins of mental disorders