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...

Aug. 15, 2011 Study finds new role for protein in hearing University of Iowa scientists have discovered a new role for a protein that is mutated in Usher syndrome, one of the most common forms of deaf-blindness in humans. The findings, which were published Aug. 8 in Nature Neuroscience, may help explain why this mutation causes the most severe form of the condition. The study suggests that the...

UI research team finds new genetic cause of blinding eye disease Combining the expertise of several different labs, University of Iowa researchers have found a new genetic cause of the blinding eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and, in the process, discovered an entirely new version of the message that codes for the affected protein. The study, which was published online Aug. 8 in the...

University of Iowa News Release Aug. 1, 2011 UI neuroscientists establish patient registry to study traumatic brain injuries University of Iowa neuroscientists have launched a registry to track and study traumatic brain injury, a condition that affects 1.7 million Americans each year, including people hurt in various kinds of accidents -- from car wrecks or falls to concussions sustained during...

Diabetes Research Center announces initial research grants Leaders of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center at The University of Iowa today announced they have awarded the Center's first round of research grants to fund innovative pilot projects by young investigators. A total of 24 researchers from across the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine submitted proposals...