Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, shares an amusing thought on the acceptance of truth in the sciences. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 34342]

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, discusses how and why humans breathe. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 34341]

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, shares the series of remarkable revelations he has made about breathing and the brain. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 33948]

Women who fought for the right to vote were struggling for nothing less than access to full citizenship. Ellen DuBois, UCLA professor of history and gender studies, emphasized the larger vision women held in the struggle for women's suffrage. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 33134]

Michael Green, neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA, has been fascinated with the human brain, behavior and mental illness since his undergraduate days. In particular, his research focuses on schizophrenia, a chronic brain disorder that affects about 1 percent of the population. In this UCLA Faculty Research Lecture, he describes how his lab uses discoveries in psychology and social neuroscience about normal brain functioning to inform his...

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, shares insights from his work as a renowned expert on human learning. Bjork has been studying learning and memory for more than four decades. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 32833]

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, shares insights from his work as a renowned expert on human learning. Bjork has been studying learning and memory for more than four decades. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 32828]

John Agnew, UCLA distinguished professor of geography, has spent his scholarly career examining the politics of place. In this lecture he asks if there is such a thing as post-place politics given that our connections to our immediate communities is still paramount when it comes time for people to decide whom to elect, what government programs to support and how much to expect for positive impact in their lives. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 31916]

Animal development is directed by a genetic toolkit shared by all animals — from fruit flies to frogs to human beings — rather than different animals having different genetic toolkits. UCLA Professor of Biological Chemistry Edward De Robertis explains that the field of evolutionary development (or Evo-Devo) seeks to understand how so many beautiful animal forms evolved through the use of the original genetic toolkit of the last common ancestor of all animals, urbilateria, which existed at...

Exploration of the Los Angeles drought and the effects of El Nino on the water supply in California. [Science] [Show ID: 31663]

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, shares insights from his work as a renowned expert on human learning. Bjork has been studying learning and memory for more than four decades. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30574]

The amazing advances made in mapping the human genome don’t alter one longstanding fact: when it comes to unlocking the scientific secrets of life, fruit flies rule. Uptal Banerjee, Chair of the the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA, explains that most principles that have been laid out in developmental biology — from mechanisms of stem cell maintenance to how a head differs from a tail — came from work in Drosophila. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures"...

Efrain Kristal explores the shadow war cast over the life and writings of the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges whose family found itself comfortably stranded in neutral Switzerland during World War I, whose translations introduced the Spanish-speaking world to German expressionist poetry from that era and who later monitored the rise of Nazism with dismay. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30566]

Arch Getty explores the intriguing details surrounding Lenin’s body, which was embalmed shortly after his death in 1924 and has been on public display ever since in a mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square. Getty is a Distinguished Professor in the UCLA Department of History. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30567]

Shafali Jeste, MD, provides a review of diagnostic practices and challenges in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with focus on the tremendous clinical heterogeneity of the disorder. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29424]

Douglas Vanderbilt, MD, discusses how to optimize high risk infant developmental and behavioral outcomes through clinical care and research. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29423]

James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29422]

Morton Cowan, MD, reviews the history, diagnosis and management of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29421]

Patricia Weng, MD, gives an overview of Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT) and provides insight on understanding the management of patients with CAKUT. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 29230]

Gary Mathern, MD, discusses the effects of seizures on the developing brain (Epileptic encephalopathy) and the contribution of UCLA in treating epileptic encephalopathy with surgery. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29229]

Robert Cherry, MD, describes how hospital and physician reputations are being publicly influenced through the lens of adverse event reporting, the evolution of value based care reimbursement, and the changing expectations of society and government. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29228]

Janet Serwint, MD, discusses the intersection of humanism with pediatric end of life issues. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29227]

In his talk, Shahram Yazdani, MD, discusses the clinical effects of heavy metal and radiation exposure in children. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29226]

Children's services have pioneered some of the most important innovations in health services across the US over the past several decades. Molly Coye, MD, MPH, discusses the new challenges for innovation, disruptive technologies and looks at what we can learn from patterns of innovation and adoption in other sectors. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29225]

Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, reviews new technology to monitor GI diseases, including mobile health applications, wearable biosensors, and social media. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29224]