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Paramjit Joshi, MD

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Theo van Erp, assistant professor in psychiatry and human behavior at UC Irvine.

Researchers identify brain abnormalities in people with schizophrenia

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JUL 13	Research reveals how brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's risk, sleep disturbance A multisite research team from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wake Forest University has discovered that brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's disease risk with sleep disturbance, which may aid early detection and prevention efforts by identifying novel treatment targets at preclinical stages. ... "Discovering these mechanisms is an important step in identifying at-risk individuals as early as possible and developing targeted interventions," said Bryce Mander, Ph.D., UCI assistant professor of psychiatry & human behavior and the study's lead and co-corresponding author.
JUL 13	How UC Irvine is using precision medicine to target neurodegenerative diseases University of California at Irvine's new Institute for Precision Health aims to use precision medicine and data to discover treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, the facility's co-director said in an interview with the university published July 11. Precision medicine is mostly used to determine the best drug regimens for cancer patients, said Leslie Thompson, PhD, the center's co-director and a professor in psychiatry and human behavior and neurobiology and behavior at UC Irvine.
MAY 26	From the Ancient Ashes of Vesuvius, Human DNA Fabio Macciardi, a professor of molecular psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine is part of a team of geneticists and archaeologists who reported Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports that they had successfully sequenced the genome of this hypothetically lazy Latin lover. It was the first time that a complete stretch of mitochondrial DNA from Pompeian human or animal remains had been genetically decoded. [Subscription required, campus-wide access provided by UCI Libraries. Sign-up here: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/nytimes]

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