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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
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.