Exploring humanity’s final frontier
UCI Brain Launch Event kicks off an ambitious campus effort to expand the horizons of neuroscience research
UCI Brain Launch Event kicks off an ambitious campus effort to expand the horizons of neuroscience research
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 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 […]
Outreach program for second- to eighth-graders promotes scientific thinking, interest in STEM careers
NIH funding supports continued research into early-life origins of mental disorders
Novel findings may further understanding of age-related dementia
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 […]
Cross-disciplinary course explores role of neurobiology in performing arts
Anthropologist explores how avatars create a Second Life free from Parkinson’s and other impairments
Claudia Kawas turns the study of the disease on its head, leading other researchers to change their assumptions