As a second-year medical student, Spencer Peterson was on his first day of the labor and delivery rotation when his wife, Julia, went into labor. The University of Iowa Health Care team he would spend weeks learning from would help deliver his son, Wesley. “The physicians rounding on the unit that day said, ‘You'll learn a lot of things today about labor and delivery,’” Spencer recalls. …

New findings from researchers at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine provide a clearer understanding of the cognitive processes that occur in the prefrontal cortex that guide timing-related thinking and behaviors.

In a scientific first, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care recorded responses from single neurons in the human insula—a brain region linked to emotional processing and perception of bodily sensations—while the participants listened passively to simple sounds. These unique recordings showed that insula neurons respond to sound during passive listening, and the responses are just as fast…

Muscular dystrophy refers to a group of inherited conditions that affect muscle structure and function. It causes progressive muscle weakness, reduced mobility, a shortened lifespan, and, in some cases, severe cardiac and respiratory complications and neurological impairment.

The primary care doctor Carlyn Haas will become grew from her experiences with health outreach, nutrition and lifestyle, and other public health principles.

Using zebrafish, UI professor Colin Kenny studies uveal melanoma to better understand how it forms and spreads — and how it can be treated. His dedication to research comes from what he calls the “sheer thrill of discovery.”

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have an outsized impact on humans’ language abilities and that these sequences evolved before humans and Neanderthals diverged.

Farnoosh Shemirani, PhD, explores how nutrition can improve health outcomes for people living with neurological and metabolic diseases.

Ted Abel, professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the Roy J. Carver Director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, has been appointed the university’s first president and provost distinguished fellow. The new role within the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost will allow Abel to have an even…