June 1, 2022
Researchers at UC San Diego have received a $25.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging to continue the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging, a 12-year assessment of cognitive and brain aging and impairment among aging Latinos.
September 2, 2022
Using a mouse model, UC San Diego researchers describe a process in which affected neurons switch expression of neurotransmitters in response to day length stimuli, triggering related behavioral changes.
September 22, 2022
With a $126 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a multi-institution team of researchers at UC San Diego, Salk Institute and elsewhere has launched a new Center for Multiomic Human Brain Cell Atlas to describe human brain cells in unprecedented detail over a lifetime.
October 21, 2015
…similar electrical signaling mechanisms as neurons in the human brain. In a study published in this week’s advance online publication of Nature, the scientists detail the manner by which bacteria living in communities communicate with one another electrically through proteins called “ion channels.”
November 30, 2017
…the changes in our brains that result in mid-life from sleep disturbances, such as obstructive sleep apnea, or pauses in breathing during sleep, could be powerful early-warning indicators of cognitive decline, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease later in life. “The pathology of Alzheimer’s disease starts decades before signs of dementia are…
May 6, 2021
Customized Brain Maps Improve Cancer Surgeries and Epilepsy Treatments New sensors created at UC San Diego sit on brain’s surface and allow surgeons to create higher-resolution brain maps Image of one of a flexible mats of closely spaced sensors being developed at UC San Diego. These kinds of sensor grids…
November 8, 2018
…in a comprehensive 3D brain circuitry atlas Cartoon of a rat as it searchers for food with postural and orofacial movements. Illustration by Julia Kuhl Eugene Field’s classic children’s poem "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" tells the tale of three child-sailors fishing from a wooden-shoe boat under the stars. In the…
November 16, 2023
Researchers from UC San Diego have shed new light on why electroconvulsive therapy has such a high success rate, a mystery that has puzzled doctors and scientists for almost a century. Findings could help improve this controversial treatment.
June 2, 2016
…an undersized head and brain. Alarms sounded around the world. Reports of Zika cases began appearing elsewhere, including the United States and San Diego County. The virus is primarily transmitted through the bite of infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Most cases outside endemic regions in Africa, Asia and South America are…
August 10, 2017
…the most detailed information yet on what makes one brain cell different from its neighbor. The novel approach enabled the team to sort neurons into subtypes and create new kinds of brain maps. The study also identifies new subtypes of neurons.
