Indian Express reported Thursday on a study led by Dr. Itzhak Fried, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, showing for the first time that human memory can be improved by electrically stimulating a key area in the brain as it learns to navigate a new environment. Fried was quoted.

Teens With Tourette's

Dr. Neil Martin, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery, was interviewed Thursday on CBS’s “The Doctors” about teenagers in upstate New York inexplicably developing symptoms of Tourette's syndrome.

 

An article in today's Los Angeles Times about a man with frontotemporal dementia, a disease that affects a brain area in which social emotions are formed, referenced Dr. Mario Mendez, UCLA professor-in-residence of neurology, and Jill Shapira, a UCLA nurse practitioner in neurology, who are treating him.

 

Alabama's Huntsville Times today profiles Stan Trimble, UCLA professor emeritus of geography, highlighting his 30-year project to develop a 200-acre "landscape garden" around his home in Tennessee. Trimble is quoted.

Dr. Michael Irwin, professor of psychiatry and director of the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was interviewed Thursday on NPR’s “Morning Edition” about how practicing the ancient Chinese martial art tai chi may help Parkinson’s disease patients regain balance.

 

Cook, the Miller Family Professor of Psychiatry and director of the depression research program at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was quoted Tuesday in a My Health News Daily article about research showing that distraction can reduce feelings of pain.

 

Gabriel, the Arden Realty Professor of Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA, was quoted Thursday in a Los Angeles Times article about a $25 billion settlement between banks and state and federal governments aimed at helping those who lost their homes through improper foreclosures.

 

Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast and Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Thursday in a Los Angeles Times article about a $25 billion settlement between banks and state and federal governments aimed at helping those who lost their homes through improper foreclosures.

 

Meredith Phillips
Phillips, associate professor of public policy at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, is quoted today in a New York Times article about the growing educational achievement gap between rich and poor children in the U.S.