Departmental Spotlight

Reynolds, Borders Appointed Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Endowed Chairs in Rural Health Policy

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine and the UK College of Public Health will be home to the new Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Endowed Co-Chairs in Rural Health Policy. Read More @ UKNOW

UK Expert Advises FDA on Hydrocodone Policy

In January, an advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration recommended tighter controls and greater scrutiny be placed on hydrocodone, one of the most widely abused pain medications in the United States, by reclassifying it from Schedule III to the more restrictive Schedule II. Read More @ UKNOW

UK Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation Receives NIH Grant

The University of Kentucky Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation (CDART) has received a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funding which will continue the center's long history of developing novel intervention strategies that target high-risk individuals. Read More @ UKNOW

How do visual luminance, shape, movement and depth information, initially processed separately in our visual cortices, bind together in the brain so that we perceive a coherent 3D object, all within a fraction of a second? Using simultaneous magneto-encephalographic (MEG) and electro-encephalographic (EEG) recording from the brain, Jiang and her collaborators in Magdeburg, Germany, found that perception of 3D objects perception elicits sequential activity in human brain as shown in the animation, with a key region for the assembly or "binding" of object features. This dynamic assembly in the human brain achieves coherent perception within 500 milliseconds.