In the News

University of Iowa study identifies salt appetite neurons in mice and humans

Monday, December 23, 2024

Common heart drug may slow progression of Huntington's disease

Monday, December 2, 2024

Dream team: UI researchers uncover a new understanding of sleep

Monday, October 7, 2024
MedicineIowa
Iowa Neuroscience Institute researchers find that sleep deprivation affects each part of the brain differently, allowing for distinct computations influencing behavior, emotion, and memory.

Nicholas Trapp: Leading advances in interventional psychiatry

Thursday, May 23, 2024
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.

Baran, Chatterjee win INI Williams-Cannon Fellowships for research on neurodegenerative disease

Tuesday, May 7, 2024
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.

Unraveling the SUDEP mystery

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
For people with epilepsy and their loved ones, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is “a ticking time bomb that creates anxiety and fear,” says University of Iowa neurosurgeon Brian Dlouhy, MD.

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Neuroscience Events

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, January 27, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
The 2024-2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series is organized by our colleagues at Penn State University and will feature virtual seminars from a different Big Ten neuro program on the 4th Monday of each month (November, December, May dates are adjusted for holidays.) The links will be shared in the Neuroscience this week email. Contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu if you do not receive this email and would like to attend a seminar.

Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Melissa Brotman, PhD, "Translation, treatment and technology: An integrative approach to pediatric psychopathology"

Friday, February 14, 2025 12:00pm
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series, featuring  Melissa Brotman, PhD Chief of the Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit, Emotion and Development Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health  "Translation, treatment and technology: An integrative approach to pediatric psychopathology" Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, noon CST Pediatric Conference Center JCP 2415 More information to come!  

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, February 24, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
The 2024-2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series is organized by our colleagues at Penn State University and will feature virtual seminars from a different Big Ten neuro program on the 4th Monday of each month (November, December, May dates are adjusted for holidays.) The links will be shared in the Neuroscience this week email. Contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu if you do not receive this email and would like to attend a seminar.

Iowa Neuroscience Institute Seminar: Matthew Leonard, PhD

Friday, March 7, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building
"Speech and language computation in the human superior temporal gyrus" Matthew Leonard, PhD Associate Professor Department of Neurological Surgery Weill Institute for Neurosciences University of California, San Francisco

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, March 24, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
The 2024-2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series is organized by our colleagues at Penn State University and will feature virtual seminars from a different Big Ten neuro program on the 4th Monday of each month (November, December, May dates are adjusted for holidays.) The links will be shared in the Neuroscience this week email. Contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu if you do not receive this email and would like to attend a seminar.

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, April 28, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
The 2024-2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series is organized by our colleagues at Penn State University and will feature virtual seminars from a different Big Ten neuro program on the 4th Monday of each month (November, December, May dates are adjusted for holidays.) The links will be shared in the Neuroscience this week email. Contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu if you do not receive this email and would like to attend a seminar.

Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center

Friday, May 9, 2025 12:00pm
Virtual
Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Neurological Sciences, Anatomy and Cell Biology Director, RUSH Pediatric Neurosciences F.A.S.T. Center for Translational Research Friday, May 9, 2025, noon CST in the Pediatric Conference Center JCP2415 More information to come!  

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, May 19, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
The 2024-2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series is organized by our colleagues at Penn State University and will feature virtual seminars from a different Big Ten neuro program on the 4th Monday of each month (November, December, May dates are adjusted for holidays.) The links will be shared in the Neuroscience this week email. Contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu if you do not receive this email and would like to attend a seminar.