On March 16, UC Irvine’s Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Southern California will host a private screening of “Through the Heart of Tango,” a remarkable documentary about a group of young adults with developmental disorders learning to bond through dance. More Information >>
UC Irvine’s eighth annual epilepsy symposium, “Epilepsy in Modern Life: Classic & Alternative Approaches,” will address the emerging roles of exercise, sleep and cognitive training and examine ways to integrate these activities into comprehensive treatment plans. The event will take place Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa. “Our goal [...]
UC Irvine neuroscientists have developed a way to stop epileptic seizures with fiber-optic light signals, heralding a novel opportunity to treat the most severe manifestations of the brain disorder. Using a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, Ivan Soltesz, Chancellor’s Professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology, and colleagues created an EEG-based computer system that [...]
IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register interviewed UC Irvine neuroscientist Larry Cahill in advance of his talk about research into differences found in the male and female brain: Women should get angry when they read this story, and men should as well, says Larry Cahill, a neuroscientist at UC Irvine who studies what he [...]
The UC Irvine 90+ study lead by Dr. Robert Moyzis has found that a derivative of a dopamine-receptor gene (called the DRD4 7R) is associated with living a longer and healthier life. Moyzis, professor of biological chemistry, and Dr. Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist who conducts research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and also directs the [...]
Mona Sazgar, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurology at the University of California, Irvine is currently conducting a clinical trial evaluating the tolerability and efficacy of Lacosamide when added to Levetiracetam with withdrawal of other antiepileptic drugs in patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures. Qualified subjects are 18 years of age or older with a diagnosis [...]
IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register interviewed UC Irvine neuro-oncologist Dr. Daniela Bota about brain vaccines as a way to complement traditional brain cancer treatments: Military metaphors are hard to avoid when describing the work in Daniela Bota’s lab. Petri dishes become training camps, where cells taken from patients “learn” to attack a patient’s [...]
Thomas Lane looks anything but the typical scientist as he strides through his lab at UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center sporting shorts, a T-shirt and loafers. Walking past research assistants hunkered over microscopes and test tubes, he pauses to show off his prized possessions: 1970s posters of the Cincinnati Reds that once adorned [...]
UC Irvine researchers have created a new stem cell-derived cell type with unique promise for treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Dr. Edwin Monuki of UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, developmental & cell biology graduate student Momoko Watanabe and colleagues developed these cells — called choroid plexus epithelial cells — from [...]
Efforts to treat disorders like Lou Gehrig’s disease, Paget’s disease, inclusion body myopathy and dementia will receive a considerable boost from a new research model created by UC Irvine scientists. The team, led by pediatrician Dr. Virginia Kimonis, has developed a genetically modified mouse that exhibits many of the clinical features of human diseases largely [...]