Gen Shinozaki, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, received the Dlin/Fisher Clinical Research Award at the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting last month. Shinozaki was recognized for his outstanding work in using a novel EEG device to screen for delirium. (...
With a finding that will “rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks,” INI's Aaron Boes, Joel Geerling, and colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway involved in keeping humans awake and conscious. (...
Three teams of researchers have won Accelerator Grants from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI). These grants support high-impact neuroscience research in areas that are new or add value to existing research by branching in a new direction.
“Creativity is a hallmark of the University...
Ted Abel, PhD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty member and director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute at the UI, will serve as interim chair and departmental executive officer of the Department of Pharmacology. (...
UI officials, including President J. Bruce Harreld, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Interim Dean Joseph Kearney, and psychological and brain sciences faculty spoke at a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 8 to celebrate the new building that will transform the department’s teaching and research,...
UI doctors and researchers, including INI Director Ted Abel, work to shine light on the third of our lives we spend in the dark. ( read more )
The inaugural Iowa Neuroscience Institute Workshop, held Sept. 20-22 at the University of Iowa, brought together more than 60 scientists, all with research interest in the cerebellum.
Three INI scientists have received NARSAD Young Investigator grants from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for projects focused on schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and depression: Marie Gaine, PhD, assistant research scientist; Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD, assistant professor of...
University of Iowa stroke researchers, led by INI's Enrique Leira, MD, have received a five-year, $1.5 million competitive grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health to continue to run a research infrastructure of 12 hospitals in Iowa, Nebraska, and North Dakota aiming to generate and...