Archive for 2024
Browse the May 2024 UCI Brain Circuit E-newsletter
Misplaced your keys? How to distinguish dementia from normal age-related memory loss
Why can’t we simply just remember everything? “The answer to this question is very complex,” Dr. S. Ahmad Sajjadi, a neurologist at UCI Health as well as an associate professor of…
Read MoreUC Irvine to lead study of how DNA genetic variations might influence nicotine addiction
A three-year, $1.19 million grant from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program will allow University of California, Irvine researchers to explore how specific sections of DNA might influence nicotine addiction. Deeper…
Read MoreWhy Do Some People Always Get Lost?
Researchers do not yet know whether every bad navigator is simply poor at survey knowledge, or whether some of the lost might be failing at other navigational subskills instead, such…
Read MoreNIH seeks input on how structural racism affects brain research, health
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a request for information last week about how to counteract the effects of structural racism on brain health and research. The request, or RFI,…
Read MoreUC Irvine researchers find new origin of deep brain waves
University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles. Traditionally believed to…
Read MoreScientists study brains to understand the joy that’s felt when caring for siblings
Belinda Campos is a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. She says that in Latino families like Caitlynn’s, parents are often doing something very specific, and scientists can even…
Read MoreExercising, socializing, play help aging dogs preserve brain function
As their aging brains shrink, older dogs can suffer the same memory and thinking problems as many older humans do. But dogs are just like humans in another way —…
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