Unexpected Impact: Concussion Derails Football Dreams, Experts Help Ignite Hurdles Talent
August 13, 2024
A traumatic brain injury ended Caden Taffe’s ability to play football, yet he has channeled his talents into running hurdles.
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Transforming Clinical Recording of Deep Brain Activity with a New Take on Sensor Manufacturing
January 17, 2024
Sensors built with a new manufacturing approach are capable of recording activity deep within the brain from large populations of individual neurons–with a resolution of as few as one or two neurons–in humans as well as a range of animal models.
Novel Phage Therapy Saves Patient with Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infection
April 25, 2017
Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD), Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages — viruses that target and…
Ahead of the Curve
May 19, 2016
…science, psychology, neurology and psychiatry), nanoscience and radiology, chemistry and physics, computer science and mathematics. Top-ranked researchers across many disciplines and a spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration, fostered in part by UC San Diego’s relative youth among major research universities, has been an attractive lure to attract senior scientists looking to…
UC San Diego’s Big Ideas for 2016 — and Beyond
January 7, 2016
…professor of psychology and psychiatry “We are making significant investments in scholarship and science that will keep the university at the forefront of socially beneficial research,” says Brown. “We believe in thoughtful cultivation of promising people and innovative projects that will strengthen the university’s record of problem-solving research. That approach…
Pharming the Microbiome
January 24, 2023
The gut microbiome plays a critical but poorly understood role in how drugs work or don’t work in the body. It also presents therapeutic possibilities unto itself.
New Website to Open World of Neurosciences to Public
March 13, 2012
…therapies for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Q: The Society for Neuroscience has a primer for the public called Brain Facts. What is BrainFacts.Org, how does it differ from this primer and why is it being created? BrainFacts.book has been a mainstay of the outreach and education efforts of the Society…
UC San Diego Scholars Honored with Faculty Excellence Awards
March 14, 2013
…origins of neurological and psychiatric disorders. He currently serves as director of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego, and works to support and enhance the field of neuroscience on campus and in the community. “Professor Spitzer’s findings have dramatically altered our understanding of the capability…
Brain Trust
October 9, 2014
…developing treatments for both psychiatric and neurological disorders. Understanding the complexities of the brain’s wiring will also find applications outside of the life sciences – such as smart phones, driverless cars and robots.” Nicholas Spitzer delivers a lecture titled “The Ever-Changing Brain: From Embryo to Adult.” Andrea Chiba, an associate…
Launching a Microbiome Movement
May 19, 2016
…asthma, diabetes, obesity and psychiatric illnesses—and explore the microbiome as a source for new drugs and potential tool for precision medicine. UC San Diego researchers will also collaborate to advance research on soil, aquatic and other environmental microbiomes, and help other scientists use that information to address global challenges to…
