Context shapes our perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions. A recent UC Davis Health study identified where in the brain these neural computations take place and how, based on context, the different parts of the brain interact to determine facial perception.
Families of deceased people who donated their bodies to the UC Davis School of Medicine were personally thanked by anatomy students and faculty at the annual Body Donor Service of Gratitude ceremony.
UC Davis Health neuroscientist Sergey Stavisky was selected by the National Institutes of Health to receive the 2022 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The $2.3 million award will fund his research on medical devices implanted in the brain to restore speech.
David Tom Cooke, UC Davis oncology surgeon and chief of the Division of General Thoracic Surgery, has received the 2022 Ethnic Physician Leadership Award. He was recognized for his work to improve community health and reduce health disparities in California.
Season 4 of Unfold, a UC Davis podcast, is focused on leading-edge technologies and treatments that help advance the health of both people and animals. The first episode, “Hope for a Spina Bifida Cure, Part 1,” about a groundbreaking treatment for spina bifida in bulldogs, is now available.
Inspired by creatures that survive in harsh environments, a UCLA team has invented a polymer with the potential to extend the shelf life and reach of medications.
Last month new “bivalent” booster vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer became available that protect against currently circulating Omicron variants as well as earlier strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. This Q&A features Joel Ernst, MD, a UCSF professor of medicine whose research aims to understand how pathogens…
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