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“Understanding the mechanisms behind learning is essential for making progress. It gives us insights into what’s going on when brains don’t work the way they are supposed to,” says UCI’s Bruce McNaughton. UCI

Solving algorithm ‘amnesia’ reveals clues to how we learn

Jul 5, 2022

How exercise may help prevent Alzheimer’s

Jun 22, 2022
Scientist poses in from of neuron image.

How traumatic brain injury changes the brain

Jun 22, 2022
Mother walking with child. Predictable and consistent parental behavior is key for optimal child brain development.

Predictable and consistent parental behavior is key for optimal child brain development

Jun 22, 2022

Who benefits from brain training, and why?

Jun 21, 2022
UCI research finds parents’ unpredictable behavior may impair optimal brain circuit formation - image of Tallie Z Baram

UCI research finds parents’ unpredictable behavior may impair optimal brain circuit formation, featuring CNLM Fellow, Tallie Z. Baram

Jun 2, 2022
CNLM Graduate Neuroscience Student, Pin-Chun Chen

Soc sci shout out: CNLM Grad Student, Pin-Chun Chen, cognitive sciences Ph.D. ’22

May 31, 2022
Warning! Nicotine poses special risks to teens - Image of teen smoking cigarette

Warning! Nicotine poses special risks to teens, featuring CNLM Fellow, Frances Leslie

May 19, 2022

Support the UCI CNLM on Giving Day 2022

May 10, 2022
What is eidetic memory: the poor man’s photographic memory - Image of after image photo effect

What is eidetic memory: the poor man’s photographic memory, featuring CNLM Founder, James McGaugh

Apr 21, 2022

RSVP Today! Virtual Colloquium with Duane Watson, Ph.D. – May 3 @ 11AM

Apr 20, 2022
Feeling forgetful? How stress may impact memory- abstract image of brain with glowing neurons

Feeling forgetful? How stress may impact memory, featuring CNLM Fellow, Sara Mednick

Apr 12, 2022
The Role of the Downstate for Sleep, Restoration and Longevity Podcast with Sara Mednick - New Frontiers In Functional Medicine Podcast graphic with Sara Mednick and Kara Fitzgerald

The Role of the Downstate for Sleep, Restoration and Longevity Podcast featuring CNLM Fellow, Sara Mednick

Mar 17, 2022
Frequent and Feared. But Can Dementia Be Avoided? Featuring CNLM Fellow, Claudia Kawas - Image of older woman staring out window

Frequent and Feared. But Can Dementia Be Avoided? Featuring CNLM Fellow, Claudia Kawas

Mar 17, 2022
2022 Brain Awareness Week Sticker Competition - Image of 9 stickers with themes of ways to improve memory, brain memory, learning and memory, human brain and Neuroscience

Celebrate Brain Awareness Week! Vote for your favorite design!

Mar 16, 2022
CBD for Schizophrenia featuring CNLM Fellow, Daniele Piomelli - Image of water color painting featuring a close up graphic of a face

CBD for schizophrenia, featuring CNLM Fellow, Daniele Piomelli

Mar 16, 2022
Inside the brain: The role of neuropathology in Alzheimer’s disease research, featuring CNLM Fellow, Claudia Kawas - graphic of Amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain

Inside the brain: The role of neuropathology in Alzheimer’s disease research, featuring CNLM Fellow, Claudia Kawas

Mar 14, 2022
2022 Irvine Brain Bee participants pose together in front of UCI - That was fun! We look forward to seeing you next year for the 2023 Irvine Brain Bee!

2022 Irvine Brain Bee Inspires Teens to Explore the Brain

Mar 11, 2022
Virtual Colloquium with Chantal Stern, D.Phil. - March 29 @ 11AM - Dr. Stern pictured in front of bookcase

Virtual Colloquium with Chantal Stern, D.Phil. – March 29 @ 11AM

Mar 9, 2022
2022/23 T32 Training Program now accepting nominations! - Image shows student looking through microscope

Call for nominations: CNLM T32 in Learning and Memory

Mar 8, 2022
UCI researchers develop hybrid human-machine framework for building smarter AI

UCI researchers develop hybrid human-machine framework for building smarter AI, featuring CNLM Fellow, Mark Steyvers

Mar 8, 2022
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CNLM Award Submissions NOW OPEN!

Feb 24, 2022
Determining if Dementia Is Uniquely Human, featuring CNLM Fellow, Elizabeth Head - Image of chimpanzees looking at camera

Determining if Dementia Is Uniquely Human, featuring CNLM Fellow, Elizabeth Head

Feb 22, 2022
How the brain organizes memories in time - person looking up at clock

How the brain organizes memories in time, featuring CNLM Fellow, Norbert Fortin

Feb 18, 2022
Memory encoding found to differ between the sexes, before and after puberty featuring CNLM Fellow, Christine Gall - Image of woman contemplating data

Memory encoding found to differ between the sexes, before and after puberty, featuring CNLM Fellow, Christine Gall

Feb 18, 2022
UCI poised to advance depression research following $55-million gift to establish center, featuring CNLM Fellows, Tallie Z. Baram and Michael A. Yassa - students examining human brain on computer screen in neuroscience lab

UCI poised to advance depression research following $55-million gift to establish center, featuring CNLM Fellows, Tallie Z. Baram and Michael A. Yassa

Feb 16, 2022
UCI team uncovers key brain mechanisms for organizing memories in time - images of Norbert Fortin and Babak Shahbaba

UCI team uncovers key brain mechanisms for organizing memories in time

Feb 15, 2022
What Can Wordle Do for Our Brains? - Image of person playing Worldle on iPhone

What Can Wordle Do for Our Brains?

Feb 11, 2022
Stemming the Rising Mental Health Crisis - image of watercolor human profile

Taking on Depression

Feb 10, 2022
Stemming the Rising Mental Health Crisis - Image of Neuroscience Student examining human brain on computer brain

Stemming the Rising Mental Health Crisis

Feb 10, 2022
UCI CNLM Neuro Times

Browse the 2022 Winter NeuroTimes e-Newsletter

Feb 10, 2022
2022 Irvine Brain Bee

Calling all high schoolers! Join us for the Irvine Brain Bee March 5

Feb 9, 2022
New Course! The Mind-Body Connection in the Neuroscience of Wellbeing - abstract image of woman looking up with 3d human skeleton

New Course Starting Spring 2022: The Mind-Body Connection in the Neuroscience of Wellbeing

Feb 8, 2022
Virtual Colloquium with Lara Rangel Ph.D. - March 1 @ 11AM - Lara Rangel pictured outside at UC San Diego

Virtual Colloquium with Lara Rangel Ph.D. – March 1 @ 11AM

Feb 8, 2022
Audrey Steele Burnand estate gifts $57.75 million to UCI - image of Pramod Khargonekar, vice chancellor for research, left, with Dr. Michael Stamos, dean of the School of Medicine, center, and Frank LaFerla

Audrey Steele Burnand estate gifts $57.75 million to UCI

Feb 7, 2022
high risk high reward neurobiology research orange county

$25,000 Award for High-Impact, High-Reward Pilot Projects

Feb 4, 2022
Listen Now: Michael Yassa featured on CNN's Chasing Life Podcast - Image of Michael Yassa and Sunday Gupta

Listen Now: Michael Yassa featured on CNN’s Chasing Life Podcast

Feb 3, 2022
It’s not just you — we are all more forgetful during the pandemic, experts say. Here’s how to fix it - image of holding hands

It’s not just you — we are all more forgetful during the pandemic, experts say. Here’s how to fix it

Feb 3, 2022
Study could explain why Parkinson's drug improves, then diminishes quality of life, featuring CNLM Fellow, Amal Alachkar

Study could explain why Parkinson’s drug improves, then diminishes quality of life, featuring CNLM Fellow, Amal Alachkar

Jan 20, 2022
It’s awful to be a medical exception’: the woman who cannot forget, featuring CNLM Fellow, Craig Stark - image of Rebecca Sharrock in library

‘It’s awful to be a medical exception’: the woman who cannot forget, featuring CNLM Fellow, Craig Stark

Jan 18, 2022

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