Cognitive psychology
First-time Internet users find boost in brain function after just one week
You can teach an old dog new tricks, say UCLA scientists who found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web. The findings, presented Oct.
Division of Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology
Division of Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology
The Division of Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology has developed a broad range of administrative, clinical, teaching and research activities. The program provides administrative oversight for over 200 faculty, staff, and trainees throughout the UCLA Health System. Psychologists provide clinical service across all the divisions of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, and diverse divisions in other departments (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, and various surgery programs). The faculty is actively involved in teaching at all levels from pre-doctoral through post-doctoral, both for physicians and psychologists in training.
Our postdoctoral fellowships, internships and externships for clinical psychology and neuropsychology are internationally renowned and among the largest in the world. The Psychology faculty maintains a broad and diverse portfolio of funded research programs across the many Semel Institute Centers and Programs. Noteworthy examples among these research initiatives spearheaded specifically within the Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology program, include:
- The Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics, supported by the NIH Roadmap Initiative, is is helping to define cognitive phenotypes that may one day replace conventional psychiatric diagnoses in the search for genetic bases and effective treatments for neuropsychiatric syndromes.
- The Center for the Biology of Creativity, supported by the Tennenbaum Family Initiative and complemented by participating investigator resources, brings together a campus-wide team of scientists to pursue highly innovative interdisciplinary research on the molecular, cellular, neural systems, and cognitive bases of exceptional abilities.
Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology
760 Westwood Plaza, C8-849
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Joint Seminars in Neuroscience
Sponsored by The Brain Research Institute, The Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Full detail at www.bri.ucla.edu
Staglin IMHRO Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Staglin IMHRO Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
The Staglin IMHRO Center for Cognitive Neuroscience facilitates interdisciplinary research and educational activities related to the study of cognition and emotion and disorders thereof.
Our principal areas of emphasis are learning and memory, mood regulation, impulsivity, social cognition, language, vision, and stress sensitivity, and illnesses that impact these systems, including schizophrenia, bipolar illness, major depression, attention deficit disorder, autism, anxiety disorders, and Alzheimer’s disease—disorders in the study and treatment of which the UCLA is pre-eminent nationally and internationally. A key element of our strategy is the integration of genomic, cellular and molecular, brain imaging, behavioral, and computational approaches to the study of cognition.
The Center operates an advanced MRI laboratory equipped for anatomical, functional (BOLD and arterial spin labeling), diffusion-weighted, and spectroscopic imaging and with integrated an electroencephalography (EEG) system, as well as an analysis core specializing in algorithms for modeling functional imaging and EEG datasets.
Schedule a scan Scanner status
