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Supercomputers Help Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research

March 16, 2021

Since 2009, Daniel Tward and his collaborators at UCLA and Johns Hopkins University have analyzed more than 47,000 images of human brains via MRI Cloud—a gateway created to collect and share quantitative information from human brain images, including subtle changes in shape and cortical thickness.

UC San Diego Receives $12.4M NIH Grant to Map the Human Nervous System

February 23, 2022

The National Institutes of Health have awarded UC San Diego a grant totaling $12.4 million. This will support a new research center dedicated to studying the human brain and central nervous system 〈CNS〉, specifically the ways they’re affected by HIV and opioids.

Your Brain Needs to Be Ready to Remember?

June 1, 2020

What happens in the hippocampus even before people attempt to form memories may impact whether they remember. Study suggests ‘encoding mode’ may play an important role in memory formation.

Birthday Matters for Wiring-Up the Brain’s Vision Centers

July 31, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have evidence suggesting that neurons in the developing brains of mice are guided by a simple but elegant birth order rule that allows them to find and form their proper connections.

Breakthrough with Quantum Materials Pushes Biologically Inspired Learning Devices

April 14, 2021

UC San Diego physicists have created new artificial devices that mimic basic learning functions carried out by neurons in the human brain. They demonstrated how quantum materials could be used to develop new devices that can “learn” to switch between functional states.

Longer Days Bring ‘Winter Blues’—For Rats, Not Humans

April 25, 2013

…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 entirely different neurotransmitter to stimulate the same part of the brain.

UC San Diego’s Brown Briefs Congress on Brain Development, Substance Use in Young

November 20, 2014

…Brown Briefs Congress on Brain Development, Substance Use in Young Organized by APA, Congressional Briefing Draws Large Crowd Sandra A. Brown, vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego, was a featured speaker at an October Congressional Briefing in Washington, D.C., where she shared important findings on adolescent neurodevelopment with…

New Study of Brain Circuits Finds Key Links to Symptoms of Depression

July 17, 2017

Scientists have linked specific wiring in the brain to distinct behavioral symptoms of depression. In a study published in Cell, researchers at UC San Diego found brain circuits tied to feelings of despair and helplessness and were able to alleviate and even reverse such symptoms in mice studies.

Patches of Cortical Layers Disrupted During Early Brain Development in Autism

March 26, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Allen Institute for Brain Science have published a study that gives clear and direct new evidence that autism begins during pregnancy.

Exercise Boosts Motor Skill Learning Via Changes in Brain’s Transmitters

May 4, 2020

Comparing the brains of mice that exercised with those that did not, UC San Diego researchers found that specific neurons switched their chemical signals, called neurotransmitters, following exercise, leading to improved learning for motor-skill acquisition.

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