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Easily accessible through an online app, UCLA-developed research maps help neuroscientists quickly scan what is already known in their field and plan their next study.

The biennial survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the largest amd most comprehensive state health survey in the nation.

Patricia Greenfield's analysis of some 1.5 million books published between 1800 and 2000 shows how human psychology has evolved in response to historical change.

The five-year grant will support UCLA scientists' interdisciplinary efforts to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer.

UCLA researchers have helped to uncover a biological link between schizophrenia and Fragile X syndrome, a disorder associated with intellectual impairment and autism.

UCLA researchers have found that a new treatment approach incorporating both cellular and gene therapies significantly reduced brain tumor size in a model system.

With the Thirty Meter Telescope project in Hawaii, UCLA and the University of California have moved a step closer to peering deeper into the cosmos than ever before.

A UCLA study shows what many middle-aged Californians privately suspect: They are the first to lose their jobs and health benefits when hard times hit.

The newly developed technique could help scientists diagnose genetic diseases earlier and more accurately.

"We are honored to work with the Doheny Eye Institute board in developing a plan to improve patient care throughout Southern California," said UCLA Health System CEO Dr. David Feinberg.

Our happiness can impact our gene expression, but it's the way in which we're happy that determines whether that expression is positive or negative, UCLA researchers say.

The "software obfuscation" system encrypts software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it.

The new cells could serve as a power-generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users' ability to see through the surface.

The $5 million donation to UCLA Engineering from alumnus David Mong will help support the building of the Mong Learning Center as part of the new Engineering VI building.

"These findings would represent a major challenge to existing theories of a sex 'addiction,' " said UCLA's Nicole Prause, who studied the brain responses of individuals with hypersexual problems.

More than half of the world's countries have some constitutional protection of a right to public health and medical care for their citizens -- but not the U.S., a new study shows.

The Regents of the University of California and Dr. Christian Head today reached a settlement in a civil case he brought against the University last year. The matter was settled to the mutual satisfaction of the parties.

"It's complex, beautiful and so dynamic," says UCLA's Marcus Roper of the traffic-like flow of nuclei through a fungus cell. Roper has two studies out highlighting cells' ingenuity.

A UCLA-led research team examining Indian immigrants in California found an association between religiosity and obesity in Hindus and Sikhs — but not Muslims.

Study leads scientists to believe that modifying the bacteria content of the intestines could lessen the risk for lymphoma, and could point way to new therapies.

The UCLA Health System's hospitals in Westwood and Santa Monica have been named to U.S. News and World Report's most exclusive rankings list: the Best Hospitals 2013–14 Honor Roll.

The new, publicly accessible digital portal, expected to launch in late 2013, will include two decades' worth of broadcasts of the Emmy-nominated LGBT newsmagazine "In the Life."

"This is somewhat surprising at first glance, as one might assume that the more trauma, the more difficult it is to improve one's symptoms," a UCLA researcher said. That wasn't the case.

Solomon, who created UCLA's geriatrics program and was the first board-certified endocrinologist in Los Angeles, died July 9 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 90.

As part of their collaboration, UCLA and Children's Hospital will establish a nursing research department to give frontline staff the opportunity to get involved in clinical studies.