March 26, 2012
…and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new study published in the March 26 Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
June 13, 2013
…presented was President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative to chart the function of the human brain, for which UC San Diego has established the Center for Brain Activity Mapping. Ralph Greenspan, associate director of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind and the new center’s founding director, described the initiative as one…
July 23, 2021
UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues have discovered that spontaneous impulses of dopamine, the neurological messenger known as the brain’s “feel good” chemical, occur in the brain of mice. The study found that mice can willfully manipulate these random dopamine pulses for reward.
January 21, 2020
A research team from SDSC and institutes in Sweden and France have published a study on the OLIG2 inhibitor as a way to improve prognoses for brain cancer patients.
December 10, 2014
Scott Makeig, research scientist and director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Institute for Neural Computation of UC San Diego, has brought together a research group from four UC campuses who have won a $300,000 President’s Research Catalyst Award, one of five such awards across the UC…
April 18, 2019
…biological functions of the brain and nervous system. The approach encompasses multiple disciplines: neuroscience, psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics, epigenetics, physiology and more. It moved beyond the older practices of exploring a patient’s state-of-mind through talk, dreams, free association and fantasies. As a result, the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego…
August 21, 2023
New results from researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine suggest that intermittent fasting could be an effective treatment approach for Alzheimer’s disease. Mice fed on a time-restricted schedule had better memory and less accumulation of amyloid proteins in the brain compared to controls.
February 10, 2022
The Olav Thon Foundation in Norway has announced that Anders M. Dale, PhD, professor of Neurosciences, Radiology, Psychiatry, Cognitive Science, and Data Science at UC San Diego, is the recipient of its 2022 international research prize within the natural sciences and medicine.
October 17, 2013
…to map the human brain, Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM) Director Ralph Greenspan (left) provided images of the brain possible at Calit2. Spanning the intersection of the sciences and the arts, the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination Director Sheldon Brown discussed the Center’s research and provided President…
May 21, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have used computer simulations of cancer cells – cancer avatars – to identify drugs most likely to kill cancer cells isolated from patients’ brain tumors.
