Matthew Rizzo, UI professor of neurology and mechanical and industrial engineering, is the 2013 recipient of the Bartimaeus Award from the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology. The award, presented at the 6th biennial World Congress on the Eye, the Brain, and the Auto 2013, recognizes research excellence in the area of vision and driving.Rizzo, an expert in the the role of vision and cognition in...

BY ROBERT CROZIER | JUNE 28, 2013 5:00 AMCollaborative research on the impact of brain injuries sustained during athletics competition announced last year may finally begin after a summit scheduled for mid-July.The project, announced June 19, 2012, in a Big Ten press release, aims to bring together athletic programs and research capabilities from the various institutions of the Big Ten and the Ivy...

By: UI Health Care Marketing and Communications | 2013.06.13 | 02:38 PM Qi Wu, assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been selected as a 2013 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.Wu is one of just 22 scientists nationwide to receive the prestigious four-year, $240,000 award from the Pew Charitable Trusts.Pew's scholars...

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...

Work by a neuroscience grad student may shed light on hydrocephalus By: Alison Crissman | 2012.06.29 | 07:15 AM Mark Lobas, a student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and a member of faculty member Joshua Weiner's laboratory team in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Biology, received the graduate program's Publication Award for an article published in...

Appointment begins July 1 and continues through the arrival of a permanent dean By: Tom Moore | 2012.06.27 | 04:37 PM University of Iowa Executive Vice President and Provost Barry Butler and Jean Robillard, vice president for medical affairs, UI Health Care, announced the appointment of Donna Hammond as acting dean of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine...

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...

Researchers discover how part of the brain helps predict future events from past experiencesBy:UI Health Care Marketing and Communications | 2012.06.19 | 05:35 PM Researchers at the University of Iowa, together with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and New York University, have discovered how a part of the brain helps predict future events from past experiences. The work...