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Happy New Year, Tritons: A Message from Chancellor Khosla

A message from Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla

Autism Diagnoses Prove Highly Stable as Early as 14 Months

Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by trained professionals in children as young as 14 months are remarkably stable, suggesting that accurate screening and earlier treatment is feasible, report scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

Brain Imaging Studies Reveal Neurobiology of Eating Disorders

Walter Kaye, MD, professor of psychiatry and director of the Eating Disorder Treatment and Research Program at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues are beginning to be use advanced brain imaging technologies to study and improve eating disorder treatments.

Serving the Underserved During the Global Pandemic

…between UC San Diego Health and Father Joe’s Villages, a non-profit organization serving more than 13,500 San Diegans each year who are experiencing homelessness and poverty. “Knowing how UC San Diego Health contributed carries me through the day in a time when things feel uncertain,” said Beifus, chief administrative officer…

UC San Diego Expert on Violence Assesses Police Brutality and Mass Shootings in America

Tage Rai is a psychologist and assistant professor of management at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management. He co-authored the book, “Virtuous Violence” outlining research which finds that most acts of violence are driven by moral motives on the part of perpetrators.

Gone, But Not Forgotten

An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his brain.

Mindfulness Alleviates Post-Gun Violence Trauma and Depression

A UC San Diego pilot study on parents of mass shooting victims finds that eight weeks of mindfulness training is effective in reducing trauma, depression, stress and grief caused by gun violence.

It’s Not Just SARS-CoV-2: Most Respiratory Viruses Spread by Aerosols

SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, influenza, measles, and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold can all spread via aerosols that can build up in indoor air and linger for hours, an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers has reported in a review published in the journal Science.

A Look Back at 2022

As we look forward to the upcoming new year, UC San Diego Today invites readers to take a look back at some milestones from 2022.

$12.7M Grant to Establish New Center to Investigate Genetic Basis of Autism and Schizophrenia

Funded by a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine grant, researchers in the UC San Diego Verge Center aim to uncover the genetic mechanisms behind neuropsychiatric disorders.