When his toddler was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder more than 20 years ago, Ted Abel expanded his research focus to include the developmental disorder. Today, the University of Iowa provides an environment where both father and son have thrived.

Iowa Neuroscience Institute researchers find that sleep deprivation affects each part of the brain differently, allowing for distinct computations influencing behavior, emotion, and memory.

UI Health Care is home to one of the country's largest most comprehensive interventional psychiatry programs-providing care for patients from across the state and region with major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, catatonia, and other conditions.

Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded Williams-Cannon Faculty Fellowships through the Iowa Neuroscience Institute. Bengi Baran, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Snehajyoti Chatterjee, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and pharmacology, will each receive $47,500 in research funding.