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CNLM Director Awarded $3.8 million to identify biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 23, 2017 — With $3.8 million in support from the National Institute on Aging, University of California, Irvine neurobiologists are working to identify the early indicators of…
Read MoreNavigating brain oscillations and Alzheimer’s disease
Space, the final frontier. Uncharted and unexplored, it remains a mystery to us. But aside from the common cliché – apologies to all Trekkies – space is much more than…
Read MoreCNLM Fellow Dr. Georg F. Striedter publishes field’s leading textbook
Students in Professor Georg Striedter’s Advanced Neurobiology course were pleasantly surprised at the beginning of the term when they learned the textbook they would be using was written by their…
Read MoreMcGaugh-Gerard Lectureship
A tribute to world-class scholarship and a friendship dating back to UCI’s inception The CNLM and the Ayala School of Biological Sciences proudly announce the establishment of the McGaugh Gerard Endowed…
Read MoreCNLM Faculty Fellow and Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Loftus awarded Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science
Professor Loftus studies human memory, and in particular, the malleability of human memory. Her research has revealed how memories can be changed by subsequent experiences. The “misinformation effect” is a phenomenon in…
Read MoreDistinguished Professor and CNLM Fellow Bruce L. McNaughton awarded National Science Foundation Grant
The grant, entitled Hippocampal-Cortical Communication and the Extraction of Knowledge from Memory was on of 18 funded projects from the cross-disciplinary NSF Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems program. This program…
Read MoreFounding CNLM Fellow Professor Norman M. Weinberger passes away
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Read MoreNew James L. McGaugh Chair Named
The James L. McGaugh Endowed Chair was established in 2009 to honor the contributions of Dr. James L. McGaugh, the founding director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning…
Read MoreCNLM Fellow Tim Bredy discovers “junk DNA” gene that alters brain function
Timothy W. Bredy, CNLM Fellow and Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior, and colleagues at the University of Queensland and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney discovered that…
Read MoreCNLM researcher reverses effect of chemotherapy by human stem cell transplantation
CNLM Fellow Charlie Limoli has shown in a recent paper published in the journal Cancer Research that human stem cell transplantation in the hippocampus of rodents can reverse the effects of chemotherapy…
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