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Two UC San Diego Biologists Named 2015 Searle Scholars

April 23, 2015

…the Division of Biological Sciences faculty at UC San Diego in November 2013. Lim received his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley and carried out his postdoctoral training in the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Lim is also a…

46 UC San Diego Faculty Named Most Influential in Their Fields

November 28, 2018

Forty-five faculty members at the University of California San Diego are among the world’s most influential researchers in their fields, according to Clarivate Analytics’ list of 2018 “Highly Cited Researchers.”

U.S. News Global Rankings Name UC San Diego 19th Best University in World

October 6, 2015

…areas, such as pharmacology and toxicology (4), neuroscience and behavior (6), biology and biochemistry (6), psychiatry and psychology (7), computer science (9), as well as molecular biology and genetics (10).

How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain

March 29, 2012

…published in the March 30 issue of the journal Science.

How Changes in Length of Day Change the Brain and Subsequent Behavior

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.

Spotlight on Faculty Research: Center for Human Development

May 16, 2011

…in psychology and the behavioral sciences. More… Leslie Carver Leslie Carver is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. She studies the brain basis of cognitive and social developmental change in the transition from infancy to the early toddler years. More… Christina Chambers Christina Chambers is an associate professor…

School of Medicine Student on Finding Love as a Trans Woman

March 22, 2023

Like most people her age, Daniella McDonald spent a lot of time talking with friends about relationships and using dating apps. But, as a transgender woman, the experience for her was much different. She shares insights about her path to meeting her fiancé.

In Rats and Men, Nicotine Withdrawal Casts Similar Pall

September 12, 2014

In a set of novel experiments involving both humans and rats, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), University of Pittsburgh, Washington University and Harvard Medical School report that the brain’s response to reward – its ability to recognize and derive pleasure…

Using Biomarkers to Identify and Treat Schizophrenia

July 11, 2012

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say they have identified a set of laboratory-based biomarkers that can be useful for understanding brain-based abnormalities in schizophrenia. The measurements, known as endophenotypes, could ultimately be a boon to clinicians who sometimes struggle to recognize and treat the…

Lewis Judd to Step Down After 36 Years as Chair of Department of Psychiatry

June 13, 2013

…Chair of Department of Psychiatry In a career that has spanned almost half a century, most of it at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Dr. Lewis Judd has watched–and to a remarkable degree, helped shape–the evolution of psychiatry from its decidedly charismatic but often controversial past…

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