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Jul 18, 2022 | UC Irvine News

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

UCI scientists win $3.5 million grant for bold addiction research
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Jun 23, 2022 | Graduate Studies

2022 Gazzaniga Fellows

Two Anatomy & Neurobiology PhD students have been awarded the 2022 Gazzaniga Family Medical Research Award.
Graduate Student Alexa Tierno holds a mouse brain.

Jun 22, 2022 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI neuroscientists create maps of the brain after traumatic brain injury

Findings shed new light on memory and epilepsy. Dr. Robert Hunt and PhD student Alexa Tierno from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology were involved in this study.
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Jun 14, 2022 | Elseveir

Daily cannabis in adolescent mice leads to lasting changes in brain immune cells

Microglia responses to infection, social stress blunted
Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D., UCI Chancellor’s Fellow of anatomy and neurobiology and principal investigator

Jun 07, 2022 | UC Irvine News

UCI wins 5-year, $14M NIH grant to study brain circuits susceptible to aging, Alzheimer’s disease

Findings will advance development of better early diagnostic tools, new treatment strategies
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May 31, 2022 | Graduate Studies

2022 Behrens Fellows

Congratulations to the 2022 awardees!
Tallie Z. Baram, distinguished professor in the Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Pediatrics, Neurology, and Physiology & Biophysics at the UCI School of Medicine

Mar 29, 2022 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI-led study links early life adversity, microglia dysfunction, to aberrant adult stress responses, mental illness

Targeting neuroimmune interaction during brain circuit maturation may provide treatment
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Mar 17, 2022 | THE VERGE

“We don't live in a research bubble.”

The hopes and fears driving an online movement to help Ukrainian researchers.
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Feb 09, 2022 | UC Irvine News

UCI study reveals neurobiological processes occurring during puberty that trigger sex differences in learning and memory

New findings suggest optimal teaching tactics, psychiatric treatment, should adapt to reflect brain differences.
Schematic summary of new hippocampal circuit connections that are revealed in the new PLOS Biology study

Jan 10, 2022 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI-led team first to discover new neural circuits that regulate spatial learning and memory in the brain’s hippocampal formation

Understanding of novel functional roles can advance research in Alzheimer’s disease, other learning and memory disorders