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neuroscience

Exploring humanity’s final frontier

UCI Brain Launch Event kicks off an ambitious campus effort to expand the horizons of neuroscience research

UCI data scientists use geometric concept to spot strong, weak points in neural networks

With its 100 billion neurons connected in a sprawling and complex network, the human brain offers many challenges to scientists hoping to comprehend its structure. For a study published recently in Nature Communications, researchers at UCI, the University of Minnesota and other institutions employed an abstract geometric concept known as “network curvature” to elucidate the conduits […]

UCI engineers receive NSF grant to develop biosensors for measuring neurotransmitters

UCI engineers have received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to design integrative approaches for measuring real-time brain activity during social interactions in sleep-disrupted animal models. Early-life sleep disruption has been shown to affect the development of complex social behaviors in prairie voles, the studied model, impairing social bonding in a manner similar to […]

Brain Explorer Academy expands young minds

Outreach program for second- to eighth-graders promotes scientific thinking, interest in STEM careers

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

UCI study identifies a new way by which the human brain marks time

Novel findings may further understanding of age-related dementia

Geneticist Emiliana Borrelli receives prestigious honors

For more than 30 years as a researcher at INSERM – the French equivalent of the National Institutes of Health – and the UCI School of Medicine, Emiliana Borrelli has earned international recognition for her studies on the neurotransmitter dopamine and its role in brain diseases, movement disorders and addiction. This fall, the Chancellor’s Professor […]

Scientific method acting

Cross-disciplinary course explores role of neurobiology in performing arts

Fountain of Youth

Anthropologist explores how avatars create a Second Life free from Parkinson’s and other impairments

Alzheimer’s: It’s Not What You Think

Claudia Kawas turns the study of the disease on its head, leading other researchers to change their assumptions