June 4, 2015
…kinds of collaboration with neuroscientists, engineers and physicists. Graduates have gone on to prolific careers as performers, composers, educators and tech-oriented innovators in the private sector. With the addition of the music department’s presidential chairs, the Division of Arts and Humanities has a total of 23 endowed faculty chairs that…
August 30, 2017
Scents and Social Preference: Neuroscientists ID the Roots of Attraction Neurotransmitters and microscopic regulators found at the core of kinship A confocal image of a tadpole brain reveals dopaminergic (green) neurons, the type increased in typical kinship recognition, and GABAergic (red) neurons, those elevated in cases of expanded social kinship.…
March 8, 2018
…the world—from collaborating with neuroscientists to create the first 3D model of an octopus brain to conversations with astrophysicists about the end of the universe. Advice every UC San Diego student should know…The best way to learn is by doing. Think strategically about what trajectory you want to follow, and…
April 25, 2013
Biologists at UC San Diego have found that rats experience more anxiety and depression when the days grow longer. More importantly, they discovered that the rat’s brain cells adopt a new chemical code when subjected to large changes in the day and night cycle, flipping a switch to allow an…
July 23, 2013
Biologists at UC San Diego who recently discovered that the brain cells of adult rats can alter the neurotransmitters they secrete in response to changes in the amount of daylight have been awarded a $1-million research grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation.
May 4, 2014
UC San Diego neurobiologists discovered that the motor cortex of the brain plays an active role in learning new motor movements. In a series of experiments using mice, the researchers showed in detail how those movements are learned over time.
October 20, 2014
Physicists have come up have with a mathematical explanation for moths’ remarkable ability to find mates in the dark hundreds of meters away.
December 10, 2015
The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities hosts, “Degrees of Health and Well-being,” a public lecture series that runs from January 20 through February 24, 7:00 p.m., in the Great Hall, where six keynote speakers will present talks to campus and wider San Diego audiences.
October 26, 2017
Scientists have known that areas of the brain with similar functions—even those in different brain hemispheres—connect to share signals when the body rests, but they haven’t known how this “resting-state connectivity” occurs. Now, scientists in the Neurophysics Laboratory at the University of California San Diego may have the answer.
February 8, 2018
A team of researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University has developed a pair of “4-D goggles” that allows wearers to be physically “touched” by a movie when they see a looming object on the screen, such as an approaching spacecraft.
