Dr. Peter Whybrow, best-selling author and director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, believes that a stressful mismatch between the brain’s evolved biology and today’s demanding culture has helped shape behavior and habits that can prove trying. Dr. Whybrow notes the correlation between a more stressful and competitive society and more anxiety and depression, especially for students on campus.
Read more at UCLA Newsroom
The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge has released its Work Plan, the most detailed proposal yet for how Sustainable LA aims to transform the region and ensure that a hotter, more populous Los Angeles can actually improve our quality of life.
Source: Steps toward a sustainable golden age for Los Angeles proposed in new UCLA plan UCLA Newsroom, 6 Jan. 2016
Additional coverage about the release of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Work Plan:
Q&A with Mark Gold: How a new UCLA research plan will create a sustainable Los Angeles UCLA Newsroom, 11 Jan. 2016
UCLA Grand Challenges reveals plan for environmental sustainability Daily Bruin, 22 Dec. 2015
Q&A session with Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, Dr. John Mazziotta that includes causes of depression.
Read more at UCLA Newsroom
Parking research conducted by Donald Shoup (Luskin School of Public Affairs, department of Urban Planning) was referenced in the Huffington Post’s conversation about GM and Lyft’s plans to collaborate on a fleet of “self-driving cars” that can be summoned by app.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education features Jonathan Flint who was just recruited UCLA from Oxford to lead the components of the Depression Grand Challenge.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education