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Aug 17, 2023 | UC Irvine News

UCI awarded grant to study sex-specific brain pathway responses to stress

UCI has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the sex-specific differences in circuits that connect the brain’s stress and reward centers.
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Aug 16, 2023 | CNBC

Wegovy could prevent up to 1.5 million heart attacks, strokes over 10 years, study says

Nathan D. Wong, PhD, professor and director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program in the Division of Cardiology, talks to CNBC about this recently published study that projects 93 million U.S. adults who are overweight and obese may be suitable for the 2.4 mg dosage of semaglutide, a weight loss medication known under the brand name Wegovy.
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Aug 15, 2023 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Recent study at UC Irvine found that semaglutide medication may benefit 93 million U.S. adults

The popular weight loss medication may prevent up to 1.5 million heart attacks and strokes over 10 years, and could result in 43 million fewer obese people.
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Aug 15, 2023 | Orange Coast Magazine

Health and Wellness In Your 40s

Jody Rawles, MD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, offers mental wellness advice for those in their 40s.

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August 15, 2023
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Aug 14, 2023 | Scientific American

Why Are COVID Rates Increasing in the Summer?

Susan Huang, MD, professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine, talks to Scientific American about the driving factors behind hospitalization rates, the seasonal fluctuations of the virus and the new COVID vaccine formula that is expected to be made available this fall.
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Aug 14, 2023 | Orange Coast Magazine

Health and Wellness In Your 30s

Jody Rawles, MD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, offers mental wellness advice for people in their 30s.

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Aug 14, 2023 | Healthline

Researchers Use 'Mini-Brains' to Look for Origin of Autism

Peter J. Chung, MD, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and medical director of The Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, talks to Healthline about a new study that highlights an association between neurodevelopmental abnormalities and autism development.
Fig 2. (A) Event-related potentials and (B) difference waves from various electrode clusters. The arrows highlight a possible alternative marker of pre-attentive error detection in the visual system—early deviant related positivity (EDRP). The lighter colors surrounding the difference waves give ±1 standard error of the mean.

Aug 11, 2023 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI researchers find attention is required for a popular brain signature of prediction error

New research shows that popular brain signatures of prediction error are only generated in the presence of attention to the visual stimuli, despite early brain encoding of those stimuli.
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Aug 09, 2023 | Orange Coast Magazine

Person of Interest: UC Irvine professor honored for Alzheimer’s research

Kei Igarashi, PhD, associate professor of in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, was awarded the Japan Academy Medal for his groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's disease.