neuroscience

Scientists have pinpointed two tiny clusters of neurons that are responsible for transforming normal breaths into sighs, which could one day allow physicians to treat patients who cannot breathe deeply on their own.

The research revealed the first evidence that trigeminal nerve stimulation, or TNS, helps provide relief from chronic post-traumatic stress.

The advance could make it much more efficient to build nanoelectronic and nanobioelectronic devices that could measure brain cell and circuit function in real time.

The study is the first to look at disease progression in the synapses, where brain cells transmit impulses.

Dr. Adele Diamond and the children of the California Dance Institute on how dance aids brain development and critical cognitive skills.

UCLA scientists’ finding could lead to new therapies for the disorder, which affects one in 68 children in the United States.

The founding director of UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center is now vice chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences and chief executive officer of UCLA Health. And he’s still in awe of the brain and its complicated choreography.

Logic would suggest that millions of years of evolution would have perfected spatial localization in humans. A new UCLA study helps explain why that’s not the case.

The UCLA Goldberg Migraine Program will be led by Dr. Andrew Charles, who says the donation will enable scientists to develop new therapies and provide the best possible care for migraine sufferers.

The $2.3 million award will support work to develop methods for recording the activity of intact neural networks in living animals.

The effort will encompass a 100,000-person study to discover the causes of depression, a new treatment center and a community outreach program.

The five-year study was the first to identify growth differentiation factor 10, a molecule that previously had no known role in the adult brain.

Girls playing certain sports or participating in cheerleading are just as susceptible to having concussions as boys.

In recent years, investigators from eight UC campuses, including UCLA, have conducted more than 330 research projects in brain injury and traumatic brain injury.

Findings suggest that the industrialized world’s sleep habits do not differ much from those that humans evolved to have.

Among young people with high-functioning autism, the areas of the brain linked to social behaviors are less developed and less-sufficiently networked than they are in those without autism.

UCLA is the world’s No. 8 overall and the No. 2 U.S. public institution in the 2016 U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings.

UCLA neuroscientists report in a new study that a diet high in processed fructose interferes with the brain’s ability to heal.

Neuroscientist Peter Whybrow writes that the human penchant for instant gratification can be detrimental when making economic and financial decisions.

Finding may have implications for preventing stroke and diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease earlier.

Dr. Gary Mathern, an expert in complicated seizure disorders, was selected as the chair holder. His accomplishments have built upon the work of his mentor, Dr. Paul Crandall.

One of the three variations appears to be fundamentally a different condition than the other two, said Dr. Dale Bredesen, a UCLA professor of neurology.

Until doctors filled a tiny hole in her inner ear, Rachel Pyne suffered from superior semicircular canal dehiscence, which made her suffer through the sounds of her heart beating, her food digesting and even the shifting of her eyes.

Aided by a “robotic exoskeleton” device, the 39-year-old man was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps.

Method combines the chemotherapy drug decitabine with adoptive cell transfer, in which a patient’s own immune cells are reprogrammed to target brain cancer.