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Michael Sughrue, cofounder, Stephen Scheeler (CEO) and Stephane Doyen, cofounder of Omniscient Neurotechnology, which creates brain maps

This Startup Raised $30 Million To Create Brain Maps To Aid Surgeries And Therapeutics

July 19, 2021

Jamal B. Williams, a doctoral student in the neuroscience program, is one of 18 researchers in the country to receive an NIH Blueprint D-SPAN Award.

Doctoral Student’s NIH Award Puts Him in Rare Company

June 24, 2021

A Computational Look at How Genes Change the Human Brain

June 07, 2021

Fragile X syndrome involves changes in the X chromosome, as pictured in the four columns of chromosomes starting on the left. The fifth column, on the far right, shows two normal X chromosomes.

An Alzheimer's Drug May Boost Cognition In People With Fragile X Syndrome

April 30, 2021

Fragile X Syndrom barcode

Tetra's Alzheimer's Drug Improves Language, Learning in Fragile X Syndrome

April 30, 2021

Caregiver and patient

Treatment Found to Improve Cognitive Function in Patients With Fragile X Syndrome

April 29, 2021

Study links structural brain changes to behavioral problems in children who snore

April 13, 2021

Transfer students from the 2015 START (Summer Transfer Ahead Research Training) program, which preceded STARTneuro in efforts to broaden diversity in UC San Diego neurobiology students.

NIH Funds New Program to Broaden Diversity in Neurobiology

April 08, 2021

Magnetic resonance imaging scans whose crosshairs are fixed on a patient's nasal septum. Courtesy of Dr. Aria Jafari.

Chronic sinus inflammation appears to alter brain activity

April 08, 2021

In this artist’s rendering, amyloid plaques are interspersed among neurons. These aggregates of misfolded proteins disrupt and kill brain cells, and are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. Photo credit: National Institute of Aging

Novel Drug Prevents Amyloid Plaques, a Hallmark of Alzheimer’s Disease

March 02, 2021