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Physicists Simulate Artificial Brain Networks with New Quantum Materials

September 3, 2021

As bandwidth demands on today’s computers reach their limit, scientists are developing systems with new materials that can match the speed and precision of animal nervous systems. UC San Diego physicists have now simulated the foundation of new types of computing devices that mimic brain functions.

These Robots Helped Understand How Insects Evolved Two Distinct Strategies of Flight

October 4, 2023

Robots built by engineers at the University of California San Diego helped achieve a major breakthrough in understanding how insect flight evolved, described in the Oct. 4, 2023 issue of the journal Nature.

Vulnerability Identified for Subtypes of Glioblastoma

November 30, 2017

…and aggressive form of brain cancer, typically fails to respond to treatment or rapidly becomes drug resistant. In a paper published online in the journal Cancer Cell on November 30, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified a strategy that pinpoints a genetically distinct subpopulation of patients…

Researchers Develop First Steerable Catheter for Brain Surgery

August 20, 2021

A team of engineers and physicians has developed a steerable catheter that for the first time will give neurosurgeons the ability to steer the device in any direction they want while navigating the brain’s arteries and blood vessels.

Breathing is a Rhythm for Life, and More

April 1, 2016

Respiration is more than just an essential rhythm for life. A new study has found that rhythmic neural patterns that control breathing also coordinate movements of muscles on the mouth and face that serve a variety of sensory, ingestive and social behaviors.

Old Drugs Find New Target For Treating Brain Tumor

November 18, 2011

…of glioblastoma (GBM), the most common type of malignant brain tumor.

A Career Cultivated in Watermelon Fields

April 16, 2020

…a detailed understanding of brain structure and circuit function necessary to improving how we treat, prevent, and cure diseases of the brain. Her accomplishments recently caught the eye of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program, which awarded her a $90,000 graduate school fellowship for outstanding immigrants…

UC San Diego Health Receives Certification for Second Comprehensive Stroke Center

January 8, 2018

Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health in La Jolla recently received certification from the Joint Commission to be a Comprehensive Stroke Center. This certification is in addition to the existing accreditation at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. This expansion makes UC San Diego Health the only…

Learning Center at UC San Diego Wins $18-Million Renewal

November 1, 2011

How do humans learn, and how is the element of time critical for learning? The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), headquartered at UC San Diego in the Institute for Neural Computation, is helping to answer that question, thanks in part to an $18 million renewal grant from the National…

Bipolar Patients’ Brain Cells Predict Response to Lithium

October 30, 2015

The brain cells of patients with bipolar disorder, a manic-depressive illness characterized by severe swings in mood, energy and ability to carry out daily tasks, are more sensitive to stimuli than other people’s brain cells, reports an international team of scientists headed by researchers at Salk Institute for Biological Studies…

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