Researcher earns award to investigate how drugs of abuse affect the brain’s connections
neuroscience
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Chemical engineering professor Arnab Mukherjee awarded $1.8 million NIH grant to study reporter proteins -
Neuroscientists challenge assumptions about alpha wave brain activity -
Scientist at UC Santa Barbara helps develop animal model for one type of encephalitis, a damaging brain disease -
Neuroscientist Michael Goard receives funding for new memory research -
Neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik examines brain plasticity and the manner in which neurons ‘learn’ -
UCSB neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik examines the importance of basic cell biology research -
An outreach program designed by psychologists teaches elementary school students about the brain and how to keep it safe -
A symposium showcased the kind of cutting-edge neuroscience research being conducted on campus and at other research institutions -
What began as a scientific review of a half-century of brain studies became Michael Gazzaniga's memoir -
Two new studies provide new insight into the treatment of stuttering as well as understanding its physiological basis -
A rare gene mutation is shown to corrupt the on-off switches of dozens of other genes underlying synaptic connections -
An implantable biosensor may be the key to discovering the neurochemistry of drug addiction -
Researchers demonstrate that cholinergic amacrine cells create a “personal space” -
A new study demonstrate how taste preferences can be modified by long-term exposure to a specific diet. The results suggest a general neural mechanism underlying food experience-induced changes in taste preferences. -
Graduate student Benjamin Baird combines cutting edge computation with classic tasks and functional magnetic resonance imaging to map neural networks connected to perception and memory. The findings demonstrate that the ability to accurately... -
Crowds filled the room to hear researchers summarize their work and discuss how it relates to President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative. -
The researchers found that an unexpected molecule — an odorant-binding protein (OBP) usually found in the olfactory system — impairs avoidance behavior in mutant flies missing the OBP protein. This is the first molecule shown to promote the... -
A new study shows how the brain is affected when the attentional control processes associated with explicit memory (talking yourself through golf swing) interfere with implicit memory (letting your body do what you’ve practiced without conscious...
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Kenneth Kosik and his team found strong evidence that diaminothiazoles could slow the progression of the development of abnormal tau, a contributor to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. -
Ralph Greenspan, one of the original architects of a visionary proposal that eventually led to the national BRAIN Initiative launched by President Obama in April, comes to UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, June 27, to address the ways in which the...
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A study of the mechanisms underlying salt taste coding of Drosophila (fruit flies) supports the concept that opposing behavioral responses to low and high salt are determined largely by competition between two newly identified types of salt-... -
UC Santa Barbara has reported an important discovery in the interdisciplinary study of split-brain research. The findings uncover dynamic changes in brain coordination patterns between left and right hemispheres.
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After an announcement by federal officials approving clinical trials for the drug Crenezumab, researchers searching for a way to treat Alzheimer's Disease are gearing up for a rare study that will allow them to test a therapy for a genetically...
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Thanks to a new study of the retina, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a greater understanding of how the nervous system becomes wired during early development.
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In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer's disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made an important finding about what happens to brain cells that are destroyed in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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Video game violence affects the human brain, and cognitive neuroscientist Rene Weber has the pictures to prove it.
