December 10, 2019
A recent study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that the presence of and search for meaning in life are important for health and well-being, though the relationships differ in adults younger and older than age 60.
April 29, 2022
Researchers developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases and disorders—by recording closeups of their eye. The app uses a smartphone’s built-in cameras to measure changes in pupil size, which could be used to assess cognitive condition.
August 6, 2020
…second year as a Cognitive Science major. Sztajnkrycer participated in the Regents Scholars Research Initiative (RSRI), a unique program that pairs incoming Regents Scholars freshmen or transfer students with a faculty mentor, allowing them to gain hands-on experience in research during their first quarter on campus. Regents Scholars do not…
February 4, 2013
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded a $3.4 million grant to a team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine to study successful aging in HIV-infected adults. HIV is a serious, chronic, medical disease that affects the lives of more than one million…
May 3, 2022
Elevated levels of an enzyme called PHGDH in the blood of older adults could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease. Research led by UC San Diego has consistently found high levels of PHGDH expression in brain tissue and blood samples of older adults with different stages of the…
May 8, 2019
In a new study of older adults living in a senior continuing care facility, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine parse how distinctive factors, such as wisdom, loneliness, income and sleep quality, impact the physical and mental functioning of older persons.
October 30, 2014
…throughout the state to develop innovative new technologies for monitoring and analyzing wide-scale activity in the brain. An initiative led by UC San Diego, Cal-BRAIN is short for California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience. The program was signed into law in June and is the California complement…
October 14, 2021
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers at University of California San Diego approximately $30 million over five years to expand and deepen longitudinal studies of the developing brain in children.
October 9, 2014
…residence of neurobiology and cognitive science and founding director of the university’s Center for Brain Activity Mapping. “UC San Diego has been out in front of this effort at every stage—proposing and promoting the original idea, forming the first academic center to carry it out, and organizing the first state-wide…
June 20, 2012
With a single drug treatment, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine can silence the mutated gene responsible for Huntington’s disease, slowing and partially reversing progression of the fatal neurodegenerative disorder in animal models.
