Professor Claudia H. Kawas (Neurobiology and Behavior), a distinguished clinician scientist, studies Alzheimer’s disease and aging in the oldest old (people over 90 years of age). Professor Kawas was prominently featured in the 60 Minutes…
Assistant Teaching Professor Andrea C. Nicholas (Neurobiology and Behavior) is the author of a new series of online learning tutorials published by Garland. Professor Nicholas’ tutorials will accompany a new textbook titled “Principles of Neurobiology,”…
Professor Claudia H. Kawas (Neurobiology and Behavior), a distinguished clinician scientist, studies Alzheimer’s disease and aging in the oldest old (people over 90 years of age). Professor Kawas was prominently featured in the 60 Minutes…
Professor Larry Cahill (Neurobiology and Behavior) is a distinguished neuroscientist whose research centers on understanding sex influences on nervous system function. Professor Cahill was selected to serve as guest editor on a first-of-its-kind themed publication…
Professor Marcelo Wood was honored with the 2016-2017 Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. Conferred by the Academic Senate. The award is among the most prestigious bestowed by the Academic Senate to University of California Faculty….
Distinguished Professor Bruce L. McNaughton (Neurobiology and Behavior) was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) award and named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. An appointment to the Royal Society of Canada is…
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you of the passing of our colleague Professor Norman M. Weinberger, who succumbed to lymphoma on February 14, 2016. Professor Weinberger was a pioneering…
The team, led by Timothy Bredy, UC Irvine associate professor of neurobiology & behavior, discovered that chemical modifications that add methyl groups to RNA, a process known as methylation, could strengthen memory formation. Results appear…
Irvine, Calif., July 19, 2016 – People who selectively recalled positive informaiton over neutral and negative information performed worse on memory tests conducted by University of California, Irvine neurobiologists, who sait the results suggest that…
When most of us think of past events we may remember a few important details, but with the passage of time, most of the fine details elude us. However, there are a few select individuals…