This is your brain on no self-controlMRI images show what the brain looks like when you do something you know you shouldn’t New pictures from the University of Iowa show what it looks like when a person runs out of patience and loses self-control.A study by University of Iowa neuroscientist and neuro-marketing expert William Hedgcock confirms previous studies that show self-control is a finite...

The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center (ICICRC) at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received its fifth consecutive grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The innovative and interdisciplinary research supported by this long-running grant has made...

UI researchers explore how one cell binds itself to another, shedding light on neurodevelopmental disordersUniversity of Iowa biologists have advanced the knowledge of human neurodevelopmental disorders by finding that a lack of a particular group of cell adhesion molecules in the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain where language, thought and other higher functions take place...

Scientists at the University of Iowa are studying brain development in adolescent children who have a genetic risk for developing alcohol use-related problems due to having a family history of alcoholism. Researchers have long known that alcoholism and substance use disorders have a strong genetic basis, and children of alcoholic parents have a much greater likelihood of later developing a...

UI team develops new way to look at brain functionUniversity of Iowa neuroscientist John Wemmieis interested in the effect of acid in the brain (not that kind of acid!). His studies suggest that increased acidity—or low pH—in the brain is linked to panic disorders, anxiety, and depression. But his work also indicates that changes in acidity are important for normal brain activity too."We are...

Dystonia Medical Research Foundation Announces 2011 Stanley Fahn AwardsBy Dystonia Medical Research FoundationDystonia Medical Research Foundation Last modified: 2011-12-05T22:17:14ZPublished: Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 - 2:16 pmCHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) has announced the recipients of its most prestigious research award, the...

Dr. W. Franklin Dove spent years of his career creating unicorns. Unicorn goats, unicorn cows. Even tri-horned animals roamed Dove’s barns. Dove created these strangely-horned animals by removing immature “horn buds” from the heads of young animals and implanting the horn buds to a different location on the skull. He wanted to prove that horns did not grow straight out of the skull; instead, horn...

Sept. 21, 2011 Richerson named the Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience Leaders of the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care and the UI Foundation have announced a $2 million gift from the Carver Charitable Trust that will establish the Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience. George Richerson, M.D., Ph.D., professor and head of neurology, will serve as the...

Researchers in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have received a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. The funding will support the Research Center for the Study of Retinal Degeneration, which is part of the UI Institute for Vision Research. Edwin Stone, M.D., Ph.D., the...

UI psychiatrist with expertise in Huntington's disease to address support groupA University of Iowa psychiatrist with expertise in Huntington's disease will be talking with the UI Huntington's Disease Society of America (HDSA) Center of Excellence support group this month. Peg Nopoulos, M.D., professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, will...