The ability to recognize sounds and identify their location is possible thanks to the auditory system, comprised of your ears and brain. UConn Health neuroscientist Douglas L. Oliver was recently asked by TED-Ed Originals to explain how this complicated system works. Watch the animated video to follow a sound on its journey into the ear. […]
Author: Jody Gridley
New Grant Tests Potential Target for Age-Related Blindness
Published in UConn Today, April 23, 2018 Royce Mohan, a UConn Health associate professor of neuroscience, has received more than $400,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of a specific enzyme in retinal gliosis. Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in people over the age of […]
Congratulations James Fink!
James Fink, Ph.D., graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program (Levine Lab) has double the reasons to celebrate. He not only successfully defended his doctoral defense on January 29, 2018, titled “Understanding Synaptic Pathophysiology and Hyperexcitability in Angelman and Chromosome 15q Duplication Syndromes Using Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells”, but he was also selected as this […]