“It’s hard enough to be a teenager,” says UCLA’s Elizabeth Laugeson, “but it’s harder still for adolescents with autism because they typically lack the ability to pick up on all the social cues most of us take for granted – things like body language, hand gestures and facial expressions.” What’s the answer? Try [...]

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Want patient-friendly health information? UCLA Health System’s Health Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive resource available online – free of charge. See more than 11,000 pages of content detailing diseases, symptoms, medical tests, injuries and other common health and medical questions.
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Accessing UCLA Recreation’s online instructional videos is like having your own personal trainer available 24 hours a day. The free physical fitness tips range from how to maximize your time at the gym to how to get a workout without leaving your desk.

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Why do eyelids sag with age? A UCLA study solves the mystery, with findings that may change the way plastic surgeons treat the nearly 240,000 Americans who undergo eyelid surgery each year. <more>

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UCLA researchers have pinpointed the age at which humans start to lose the battle to repair myelin (the fatty sheath of “insulation” that coats nerve axons and allows for fast signaling bursts in the brain), resulting in a long, slow, downhill slide in motor and cognitive functions. The good news? “Since in healthy [...]

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In the future, brain aging may be controlled like high cholesterol or high blood pressure. Patients would receive a brain scan and perhaps a genetic test to predict their risk, and then medications could be prescribed to prevent degeneration. UCLA studies using brain-scan technology show that this vision of the future won’t be [...]

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As people age, cerebral hard drives fill up, making life a little more difficult: keys misplaced, grocery items left behind, names of acquaintances fading into the mental haze. UCLA’s memory expert shows how brain workouts can help keep memory and maybe even prevent Alzheimer’s. <more>
Expand your mind: the Senior Scholars Program gives anyone age [...]

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It’s hard even to accept the idea that a toddler could suffer from a mood disorder, let alone know how to recognize and treat it. Yet as many as 3 percent of all U.S. kids are clinically depressed. Here are some of the signs – and they may not be what you expect. [...]

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There are genetic and physical brain differences in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, medication can help, and no one “catches” ADHD from bad parenting, says Dr. James McGough, director of the UCLA ADHD Clinic. <more>

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Nanotechnology – the science of microscopic machines that promise miracles in almost every area of society – is the Next Big Thing. UCLA is at the leading edge with one of the world’s first programs dedicated solely to nanomedicine and pediatric patients. Why it matters to you.

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How do infants and toddlers acquire the ability to speak and understand language so effortlessly? The answer has implications for everything from public policy around bilingual education to improving interventions for those who are speech-impaired and developmentally delayed. <more>

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