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...

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...