UC San Diego Receives $10 Million for Center on Neurobiology in Changing Environments
September 10, 2024
…how climate change may impact the nervous systems and behavior of marine animals.
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Polling San Diegans About Cell Phones and Driver Safety
February 22, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have launched a new survey aimed at gauging local motorists’ opinions and activities associated with cell-phone usage and driving. It’s part of the Training, Research, and Education for Driving Safety (TREDS) program that has been working to keep Southern California highways –…
Is Guided Self-Help Effective in Treating Childhood Obesity?
April 1, 2013
Initial studies at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine indicate that a self-help treatment program for overweight children and their parents, guided by clinical experts, may be an effective solution. The study, led by Kerri Boutelle, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at UC San Diego…
New Drug Candidate May Reduce Deficits in Parkinson’s Disease
October 5, 2016
An international team led by University of California San Diego researchers has employed a novel computational approach to design and create a new compound that in laboratory studies has reduced deficits and neurodegenerative symptoms that underlie Parkinson’s disease.
Certificate Admissions Up at UC San Diego Extension
March 15, 2012
The number of continuing education students entering certificate programs at University of California San Diego Extension increased 19 percent last year, according to Elizabeth Silva, registrar and director of student services for the university’s continuing education programs.
Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Labels Led Smokers to Hide Packs
June 2, 2022
Graphic warning labels led smokers to hide their packs but not change other smoking behaviors according to report by University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science researchers.
Rewriting a Receptor’s Role
February 19, 2013
In a pair of new papers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences upend a long-held view about the basic functioning of a key receptor molecule involved in signaling between neurons, and describe how a compound linked…
Down Syndrome Research Untangles Therapeutic Possibilities for Alzheimer’s
September 17, 2015
More than five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Of them, 400,000 also have Down syndrome. Both groups have similar looking brains with higher levels of the protein beta amyloid. In fact, patients with Down syndrome develop the abnormal protein at twice the rate. Results of a pilot…
Schmidt Futures Fellows Seek to Expand Promise of AI in STEM Fields
March 23, 2023
Ten UC San Diego postdoctoral scholars are applying artificial intelligence (AI) methods to their research in a range of fields thanks to support from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Futures.
Scents and Social Preference: Neuroscientists ID the Roots of Attraction
August 30, 2017
…really controlling a specific behavior,” said Dulcis, an associate professor. “You can imagine how important this is for social preference and behavior. We have innate responses in relationships, falling in love and deciding whether we like someone. We use a variety of cues and these odorants can be part of…
