December 6, 2011
…a deeper understanding of neurological disease and foster new therapeutic approaches relevant to patient treatment. “Our immediate objective is to develop human neuronal stem cell models that can be probed at a detailed cellular level using advanced imaging,” she said. Shu Chien The lab of bioengineering professor Shu Chien, who…
March 13, 2012
…of new therapies for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Q: The Society for Neuroscience has a primer for the public called Brain Facts. What is BrainFacts.Org, how does it differ from this primer and why is it being created? BrainFacts.book has been a mainstay of the outreach and education efforts of…
April 17, 2012
…of the most devastating neurological disorders. More… Karen Pierce Karen Pierce is an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Neurosciences, and director of Clinical Research and Functional Brain Imaging at the UCSD Autism Center of Excellence. She has been in the field of autism research for over 20 years…
November 14, 2011
…embryonic stem cells. Several neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, are characterized by loss of forebrain neurons. Scientists believe cell replacement might provide a therapeutic strategy if they could generate neurons that had the same properties as the cells that are lost. While scientists have previously generated neurons from embryonic…
March 14, 2013
…into the origins of neurological and psychiatric disorders. He currently serves as director of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego, and works to support and enhance the field of neuroscience on campus and in the community. “Professor Spitzer’s findings have dramatically altered our understanding of…
June 13, 2013
…as the result of neurological and biological dysfunction, and arguing that they could be effectively treated with appropriate, rigorously developed psychopharmaceuticals. It wasn’t so long ago that this was a novel and highly debatable idea. In 1988, for example, in a Q&A in Parade magazine, Judd was asked whether depression…
October 31, 2013
…the quantitative study of neurological structures with MRI and histology. I received my bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s degree in zoology from the University of Rome. I obtained a master’s degree in neurological sciences at University College London and completed the doctoral program in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College.…
November 4, 2013
…both the slowly evolving neurological damage of Alzheimer’s disease and the sudden, catastrophic consequences of traumatic spinal cord injuries. In the latter work, Tuszynski and colleagues recently reported using introduced neural stem cells to regenerate axon growth at the site of severe spinal cord injuries in rats, restoring some movement.…
October 9, 2014
…for both psychiatric and neurological disorders. Understanding the complexities of the brain’s wiring will also find applications outside of the life sciences – such as smart phones, driverless cars and robots.” Nicholas Spitzer delivers a lecture titled “The Ever-Changing Brain: From Embryo to Adult.” Andrea Chiba, an associate professor of…
January 29, 2015
…the rare but devastating neurological disorder. The condition was first described by William Nyhan, MD, a UC San Diego professor of pediatrics, and medical student Michael Lesch in 1964. The feat was a powerful proof-of-concept, but subsequent efforts to advance the work to human clinical trials stalled. “We began to…
