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The Science of Science Outreach
Neuroscientists and science educators gathered during the Brain Awareness Campaign Event: Understanding the Impact of Neuroscience Outreach at Neuroscience 2023 to celebrate neuroscience outreach efforts around the world. In this video, keynote…
Read MoreUCI Experts On: Vision
When most people hear the word “vision,” they think eyes. But UCI cognitive scientist and visual perception expert Cherlyn Ng says our sight would be terrible if we relied on…
Read MoreAt the credit crossroads: Modern neuroscience needs a cultural shift to adopt new authorship practices
Megan Peters, UCI associate professor of cognitive sciences writes, “Neuroscience has roots in biology and psychology, which have traditionally favored smaller collaborations, and it relies on simple heuristics, such as…
Read MoreUC Irvine-led study links sleep apnea severity during REM stage to verbal memory decline
Irvine, Calif., May 14, 2024 — A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has revealed the link between the frequency of sleep apnea events during the rapid-eye-movement stage…
Read MoreDreaming is linked to improved memory consolidation and emotion regulation
Irvine, Calif., May 14, 2024 — A night spent dreaming can help you forget the mundane and better process the extreme, according to a new University of California, Irvine study. Novel…
Read MoreVanguard graduate, looking to study the brain, has cross-cultural medicine in mind
Dyane Velazquez graduated from Vanguard University on Thursday morning, one of hundreds of graduates at the commencement ceremony at Mariners Church in Irvine. Velazquez looks forward to a bright future. The Santa…
Read MoreMisplaced 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,…
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