Associate Professor Christie Fowler discusses potential biases in experimentation and data interpretation in a new podcast from the Society for Neuroscience’s Foundations of Rigorous Neuroscience Research program. Hear how Professor Fowler and other neuroscientists minimize…
Ph.D. student Angeline Dukes’ drive to bring equity to her field is gaining wide attention
Ph.D. student Angeline Dukes
photo: Steve Zylius/UCI
“Sooooo, when are we doing a #BlackInNeuro week?”
When Angeline Dukes sent this tweet last July 3,…
Chancellor’s Professor Thomas Lane, Neurobiology & Behavior, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was named a fellow for distinguished research and service in the field of…
According to a new study published in the Journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the main psychotropic component of cannabis, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is differentially processed by the bodies of adolescent female and male rats. The study was headed by Neurobiology…
Professor Leslie M. Thompson, Neurobiology & Behavior and Psychiatry & Human Behavior, has been awarded the title of Donald Bren Professor….
University of California, Irvine biologists blazing new approaches to studying Alzheimer’s disease have made a major finding on combating inflammation linked to the disease. The School of Biological Sciences researchers’ discovery about the role of…
University of California, Irvine researchers have made it possible to learn how key human brain cells respond to Alzheimer’s, vaulting a major obstacle in the quest to understand and one day vanquish it. By developing…
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded $6 million to Neurobiology and Behavior & Psychiatry and Human Behavior Chancellor’s Professor Leslie Thompson…. https://www.bio.uci.edu/california-institute-awards-uci-biosci-professor/…
Craig Stark, Ph.D., Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior, James L. McGaugh Chair in Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, Director, Campus Center for NeuroImaging (CCNI), Director, Facility for Brain Imaging Research (FIBRE), presents on…
“Superagers” give clues to improving memory
CBS news (AP) – Feb. 22, 2018
At the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Claudia Kawas studies the oldest-old, people 90 and above. Some have Alzheimer’s. Some have maintained excellent memory…