UC Irvine’s neuroscience efforts are primarily focused on the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology in the School of Medicine and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the School of Biological Sciences.

Research projects aim to discover treatments and cures for epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, learning and memory disorders, drug addiction, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), deafness and other hearing disorders, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, mental retardation and to learn more about systems neuroscience, learning and memory, cell signaling, and hearing research.