UCI School of Medicine researchers have been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a type of dementia, called hippocampal sclerosis, that often mimics Alzheimer’s disease. Led by Dr. Seyed Ahmad Sajjadi, assistant professor of neurology, the study will test the hypothesis that HS sufferers have more significant […]
UCI Brain Launch Event kicks off an ambitious campus effort to expand the horizons of neuroscience research
A multisite US clinical trial compared home-based telerehabilitation program with traditional in-clinic rehabilitation therapy
Claudia Kawas turns the study of the disease on its head, leading other researchers to change their assumptions
UCI mouse study finds significant improvements in both motor and cognitive function
Brain inflammation caused by chronic nerve pain alters activity in regions that regulate mood and motivation, suggesting for the first time that a direct biophysical link exists between long-term pain and the depression, anxiety and substance abuse seen in more than half of these patients, UC Irvine and UCLA researchers report.
Anatomical variant could promote stagnation of blood, forming clots that migrate
Forgetting where you parked your car, the name of someone you just met or a new phone number is a sign of the normal changes to short-term memory that most healthy adults experience as they age. Becoming lost on the way to the grocery store, not recognizing someone familiar or forgetting what a phone does, […]