There is plenty of research that demonstrates the health benefits of regular exercise, but a team of researchers, led by Neurobiology and Behavior Professor and Chair Marcelo Wood and Postdoctoral Fellow Ashley Keiser, has made a groundbreaking discovery that shows...
More than 650,000 people aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease in California. This number is projected to more than double by the year 2040. Hispanic/Latine and Black communities will see a disproportionate tripling in prevalence1. Genetic factors do...
Scientists at the UCI MODEL-AD group have developed a new mouse model that could help us understand Alzheimer's disease better. The mouse model is called Trem2R47H NSS, and it has a genetic variant called TREM2 R47H that is one of the strongest known risk factors for...
Assistant Professor Eitan Schechtman-Drayman from the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory fellow, has been recognized by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) as an APS Rising Star. This designation...
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded $6 million to Neurobiology and Behavior & Psychiatry and Human Behavior Chancellor’s Professor Leslie Thompson.
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research team assessed the effect of just 10 minutes of mild exercise on hippocampal memory function.