April 22, 2013
An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his brain.
July 17, 2024
UC San Diego researchers have uncovered the roots of group behavior in the brains of schooling fish. Glassfish, they found, depend on their sense of vision to coordinate social swimming behavior in schools and increase their ability to follow coordinated group movements as they mature.
March 21, 2017
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of California San Francisco, has developed a novel genetic score that allows individuals to calculate their age-specific risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD), based upon genetic information.
October 5, 2015
Under its new 4D Nucleome Program, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund has awarded three grants totaling more than $30 million over five years to multidisciplinary teams of researchers at University of California, San Diego.
April 3, 2014
…philosophy and psychology to neuroscience. According to Fry, philosophy is underrated in leadership. Thinking and talking about abstract ideas and debating principles of human nature provided him with the ability to communicate and reconcile team ideas with leadership expectations. It also taught him to appreciate differences of opinion and value…
May 16, 2013
…bring together researchers from neuroscience (including cognitive science, psychology, neurology and psychiatry), engineering, nanoscience, radiology, chemistry, physics, computer science and mathematics. “An essential component of the center will be its close relationships with other San Diego research institutions and with industrial partners in the region’s hi-tech and biotech clusters,” said…
October 22, 2015
…by Comet include: Astrophysics Neurosciences, Brain Research Social Sciences Molecular Science DNA Nanostructures Alternative Energy Solutions/New Materials Research Fluid Turbulent Physics Climate Change/Environmental Sciences Seismic Research/Disaster Prevention The Tree of Life “Today, UC San Diego is a $1 billion research enterprise,” noted Khosla, adding that “SDSC has been a trail…
August 29, 2023
A $5 million gift from the Nancy and Geoffrey Stack Foundation has established the UC San Diego Gene Therapy Initiative to find novel therapies for children and adults with genetic diseases.
November 3, 2016
…director of the Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Lab, Saygin said robots that look like humans often have the unintended effect of being creepy or scary. She discussed her research on the “uncanny valley,” showing that agreement between motion and appearance is what our brains seem to like best. People are…
December 11, 2017
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found a genetic signature for delay discounting — the tendency to undervalue future rewards — that overlaps with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), smoking and weight.
