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UCI supports a strong culture of excellence in brain research. Below are recent articles featuring cutting-edge brain research by UCI faculty and students.

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A Happy Memory Can Help You Fall Asleep, if You Know How to Use It

Jan 24, 2023
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We may now know how childhood adversity leaves its mark on the brain

Jan 5, 2023
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Browse the 2023 January UCI Brain Circuit E-newsletter

Jan 4, 2023
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The next breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research could come from old and ‘cognitively impaired’ Chilean rats

Dec 22, 2022
Ryan Lim and Leslie Thompson

UC Irvine-led study links metabolism changes in certain brain cells to Huntington’s disease

Dec 21, 2022
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Calling all high schoolers! Join us for the Irvine Brain Bee Jan 28!

Dec 13, 2022
Masashi Kitazawa, PhD, associate professor of environmental & occupational health at the UCI Program in Public Health and Lulu Chen, PhD, assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the UCI School of Medicine headshots on either side of two hands holding a purple ribbon

Medicine for the gut to dampen Alzheimer’s disease progression

Dec 13, 2022
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Saliva as a novel key for diagnostic biomarkers of cognitive decline

Dec 13, 2022
Elizabeth Head

Holly Christensen: Alzheimer’s research in people with Down syndrome benefits all

Dec 11, 2022
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UC Irvine Summer Brain Camp – Registration Now Open!

Dec 10, 2022
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Browse the 2022 December UCI Brain Circuit E-newsletter

Dec 8, 2022
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I’m a Dementia Doctor and These are the 5 Most Common Symptoms People Miss

Dec 7, 2022