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Center for Neural Circuit Mapping members awarded 3 federal grants totaling $7.1 million

Chancellor’s Fellow Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D., professor of anatomy & neurobiology and director of the Center for Neural Circuit Mapping, and other CNCM investigators have been awarded grants totaling $7.1 million from three federal agencies to support efforts to develop powerful new molecular tools and enhance resources the center offers to neuroscientists worldwide. The National Institute […]

New research “sniffs out” how associative memories are formed

UCI-led team is first to discover how the brain creates memories of delicious smells

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UCI Podcast: The perils and benefits of dream incubation

Professor Sara Mednick discusses how sounds and smells can influence our sleeping minds

Manuella Oliveira Yassa, director of outreach and education at UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Nurturing an early interest in neuroscience

Both inspired and supported by UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, a local high schooler launches a group for teens fascinated by the brain

The inspiration behind Black In Neuro

Ph.D. student Angeline Dukes’ drive to bring equity to her field is gaining wide attention

The Loh Down on Science logo and 6 students who are writers on the show

Science made simple – in Spanish

Prompted by UCI grad student, popular radio podcast goes bilingual, starting with series on the pandemic

Xiangmin Xu, director of UCI’s Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in his lab

Cartographers of the brain

UCI’s Center for Neural Circuit Mapping is redrawing our understanding of mechanisms underlying several common disorders

Amal Alachkar, a UCI associate professor of teaching in pharmaceutical sciences who led the schizophrenia research study

Schizophrenia: Nurture cannot overcome nature

UCI study could lead to ways of better treating – and possibly preventing – the disorder

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UCI Podcast: From leaving Syria to preventing psychiatric disorders

Amal Alachkar discusses reestablishing her career in neuroscience at UCI after fleeing Syria and how she helped develop UCI’s online master’s in pharmacology

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