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UI Neuroscience graduate students win 2026 Kwak-Ferguson Fellowships
Friday, September 11, 2026
University of Iowa graduate students Narges Firouzshahi and Chris Hunter have won the 2026 Kwak-Ferguson Fellowship from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute. This award goes to upper-level graduate students working in the area of neurodegenerative diseases. Each will receive $5,000.
UI researchers reveal deeper workings of brain’s information hub
Monday, August 17, 2026
A University of Iowa-led research team has shown in detail how a region of the brain called the frontoparietal cortex manages the flow of information and guides decisions and responses. The findings may inform future research into how this process is altered in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Old drug, new tricks: prostate drug could be useful in Alzheimer’s disease
Monday, August 10, 2026
Targeting metabolic energy production may lead to new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases
UI neuroscientists reveal breathing rhythm organizes widespread human brain activity
Monday, August 10, 2026
Findings have implications for sleep-related sudden death disorders, and emotional and cognitive health
UI study examines how neural activity patterns help the brain control when we act
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Results offer insight into the anatomy of cognitive deficits in neurological and psychiatric disorders
Human insula neurons ‘hear’ even when we’re not listening
Thursday, April 30, 2026
In a scientific first, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care recorded responses from single neurons in the human insula—a brain region linked to emotional processing and perception of bodily sensations—while the participants listened passively to simple sounds.
