WSJ Covers Stimulus Funds that May Trigger Research Renaissance Wall Street Journal 2009-11-05   An article in the Nov. 5 Wall Street Journal about the $10 billion in federal stimulus funds allocated for health research references UCLA's receipt of more than $67 million in National Institutes of ...

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Medical Research Spurt Offers Promise of New Cures The Wall Street Journal Online 2009-11-05   As the first grants from $10 billion in federal stimulus to health research flow in, researchers believe they may see a renaissance in their profession that inspires a new generation of scientists and...

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Building Critical Resources for Health and Economic Gain NCRR Reporter - NIH 2009-10-19   At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Medicine, new construction helped fill a niche in the field of neuroimaging. "There has been a lot of development in techniques for acqui...

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Obesity May Increase Alzheimer’s Risk The Dana Foundation 2009-10-02   Many obesity-related health risks, such as diabetes and heart disease, are well-documented. Research published online Aug. 6 in Human Brain Mapping could add Alzheimer’s disease to that list. The r...

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Alzheimer's Disease Is Sharply Rising, But You Can Lower Your Odds U.S. News & World Report.com 2009-09-21   The world's population is graying, and as a result, nations around the globe are staring down a rising tide of people who will grapple with the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Acco...

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Editorial: Exercise is good for body and mind The Pensicola News Journal 2009-08-31   The UCLA study released last week shows the brains of obese older adults are on average 8 percent smaller than their more fit counterparts. The research was funded by the National Institute on Aging,...

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Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains New Scientist 2009-08-23   Brain regions key to cognition are smaller in older people who are obese compared with their leaner peers, making their brains look up to 16 years older than their true age. As brain shrinkage is link...

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Obese people have smaller brains than their skinny counterparts London Mail 2009-08-19   Brains could shrink as waistlines expand, scientists have warned. Parts of the brain key to planning and memory are smaller in obese people than in their lean friends and neighbours. Researcher ...

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UCLA Gets Stimulated Westside Today 2009-08-15   Researchers throughout UCLA have won 80 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 grants totaling more than $19.4 million dollars. The largest of these, 1.9 million, went to UCLA's Laboratory of ...

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UCLA Study to Examine Chemo Brain LA Times 2009-07-20   Chemo brain is a common, and disconcerting, side effect of chemotherapy. The syndrome is generally described as changes in cognitive abilities that occur during chemotherapy treatment for cancer. Peop...

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Intelligence: Nature outpaces nurture as kids get older New Scientist 2009-07-15   The contribution genes make to intelligence increases as children grow older. This runs counter to the notion that as we age, environmental influences gradually overpower the genetic legacy we are bor...

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Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad The New York Times 2009-02-11   Other researchers have studied their own children in the past, but sophisticated technology allows modern-day scientists to collect new and more detailed data. The scientists also say that studying th...

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Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research UCLA Graduate Quarterly 2009-02-11   Dr. Lueders possesses extraordinary skills in applying state-of-the-art tools to analyze the anatomy of the human brain. Combining these skills with tremendous knowledge, an immensely creative spirit,...

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Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad The New York Times 2009-01-17   Arthur Toga, a neurology professor at the medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying brain change, scanned his three children’s brains using magnetic resonance imaging.

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The Child's Developing Brain New York Times 2008-09-15   Paul Thompson, a professor of neurology and member of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, was featured in the Sept. 15 New York Times concerning his research into how a brain matures. Thompson’s time-lap...

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The Teen Brain Harvard Magazine 2008-09-15   Paul Thompson, a professor of neurology and member of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, was featured in the September issue of Harvard Magazine concerning his research into how a brain matures. Thompso...

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Speed Dieting Allure Magazine 2008-08-01   A growing number of women in Hollywood are abusing the ADD drug Adderall in their quest to be thin. But along with the rapid weight loss, they may be gaining a dangerous addiction.

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Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tractography: Revealing Connectivity in the Living Brain Biomedical Computation Review 2008-04-01   One of the major obstacles to studying the human brain has always been gaining access. Until relatively recently, almost all of what we knew about the brain was obtained through post-mortem examin...

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Katherine Narr wins “Best Junior Faculty Poster for Clinical Research” 2008 Neurology Faculty Research Symposium 2008-01-16   At the 2008 Neurology Faculty Research Symposium, Professor Katherine Narr’s poster was voted "Best Junior Faculty Poster for Clinical Research". The poster can be found at the following link:

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Hong Wei Dong has published a new reference atlas textbook The Allen Institute for Brain Science 2008-01-01   LONI Professor Hong Wei Dong has recently published a new textbook, “The Allen Reference Atlas: A Digital Color Brain Atlas of the C57BL/6J Male Mouse”. This volume is a new, standard, full-colour, hi...

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