May 10, 2017
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Ecuador and Minnesota, have found altered short-term neurological behaviors in children associated with a peak pesticide spraying season linked to the Mother’s Day flower harvest. This study examined children who did not work in agriculture but…
May 21, 2019
University of California San Diego School of Medicine research expands and deepens the association between clinical depression and pain, identifying specific regions of the brain that drive, influence and moderate depressive mood and its relationship to perceiving physical pain.
July 9, 2020
…person, based on plans developed by the academic units offering them. The rest will be conducted in remote or hybrid formats. Higher education is embracing virtual learning in what could become the norm in a post-pandemic future—leading to the question: Does remote instruction and cheating go hand in hand? Tricia…
May 19, 2022
…the fields of team cognition, AI and robotics, the transdisciplinary team hopes to yield new insights into the science of human-agent teaming. Xiong’s team focuses on understanding the principles of how optical environments can influence chemical properties of matter, with the ultimate goal of designing optical cavity and photonic structures…
May 9, 2022
School of Biological Sciences neurobiologist Yishi Jin and molecular biologist James T. Kadonaga have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed upon U.S. scientists and engineers.
March 9, 2023
Researchers have discovered early social learning in insects. They found signaling communicated by honey bees about food sources—transmitted through a “waggle dance”—is an intricate form of social learning and one of the most complex known examples of non-human spatial referential communication.
June 13, 2023
The annual Legacy Lecture, hosted by the UC San Diego Scholars Society, is an event in which a nominated professor gives a unique talk based on the prompt “If this were the last lecture you ever gave, what would you want to share with the world?”
April 13, 2017
…Center for Brain and Cognition; Stephen Mayfield, director of the California Center for Algae Biotechnology in the Division of Biological Sciences; Lynne Talley, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and Kevin Tenerelli, an incoming M.D./Ph.D. student in the School of Medicine and parent of a child with…
June 5, 2012
…Center for Brain and Cognition. Her work in the lab inspired her to bring mirror-box therapy that was developed by Ramachandran to amputees in Haiti in summer of 2011. The mirror-box therapy allows patients with phantom limb pain to see a reflection of their intact limb superimposed to look like…
June 5, 2014
…a mindfulness training program developed at UC San Diego won first, second and third place at the 2014 USA Cycling Elite BMX National Championships. “Selfie” of Barry Nobles, Connor Fields and Steven Cisar. Photo by Barry Nobles. Though the podium sweep is not being directly attributed to the mind-focusing benefits…
