By:Jennifer Brown | 2012.11.16 | 10:48 AM Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa professor of psychiatry, who holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, has received the 2012 National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Scientific Research Award, honoring her contributions to the understanding of schizophrenia. Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D.Andreasen, who also directs the Psychiatry Iowa...

By:Kelli Andresen | 2012.11.16 | 10:43 AM A UI research team from undergraduate to post-docs, led by Mark Blumberg, have found that twitching whiskers made by rats in their sleep are signs of development in their brains. From left, Alex Tiriac, Alex Fanning, Brandt Uitermarkt, Blumberg, and Greta Sokoloff work as a research team in the lab. Photo by Tom Jorgensen. If you’ve ever watched a sleeping...

Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered a new cause of hydrocephalus, a devastating neurological disorder that affects between one and three of every 1,000 babies born. Working in mice, the researchers identified a cell signaling defect, which disrupts immature brain cells involved in normal brain development. By bypassing the defect with a drug treatment, the team was able to...