Research excellence cluster forms at UBC to shine a spotlight on women’s health
The Research Excellence Clusters program at the University of British Columbia continues to support research across disciplines, linking the neuroscience community with experts across campus to ask big questions and solve big problems.
New funding extends impact of UBC’s Centre for Gambling Research
A renewed investment of $1.36 million over five years from the B.C. government and BCLC will allow the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC to continue its research to reduce harms related to gambling.
UBC research is exploring how hormones shape teens’ emotions over time
Teenage years can be a turbulent time, thanks to a sharp increase in hormones. What’s not known is the role these hormones, along with physical and social changes, have in the maturing teenage brain. UBC’s Social Health Lab has launched a new study to explore how sex hormones shape teens’ emotions over time. If you […]
Motherhood changes the brain, possibly forever
New research from UBC Neuroscience PhD candidate Rand Eid and colleagues shows reproductive experiences may change the trajectory of women’s aging across the lifespan
UBC Psychology research examines hormones that make us choose love over sex
Looking for love and looking for sex are two different things, even at the level of human evolutionary biology. Alec Beall, a postdoctoral researcher, has studied the conflict between them. To usher in Valentine’s Day, Beall discusses his research.
UBC Psychology’s Andrew Baron and Amori Mikami recognized as top researchers at UBC
In recognition of their outstanding research and scholarly contributions, psychology professors Andrew Baron and Amori Mikami each earned a 2018 UBC Killam Research Prize.
Health funding to support decision-making research at UBC
Stan Floresco and Catharine Winstanley, professors in UBC’s department of psychology, received funding for their research—thanks to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and their Project Grant competition.
UBC Psychology research explores why transition to high school puts some kids at risk of mental illness
UBC’s Depression, Anxiety and Stress Lab is conducting research to identify which kids are most at risk, and why. They invite families to participate if they have children entering high school in September.
People think and behave differently in virtual reality than they do in real life
New UBC Psychology research has found a yawning gap between how people respond psychologically in VR and how they respond in real life.
Have we been asking the right questions about neurogenesis?
An editorial by Dr. Jason Snyder invites researchers to consider new perspectives in how the brain changes across the lifespan