Researchers at the University of Iowa have pinpointed for the first time the area in the human brain where doubt arises. The finding helps explain why older people, as well as others with damage to a specific brain region, are more prone to fall victim to deception and scams. Results published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.

National ABC news correspondent Lisa Starck demonstrates the dangers of driving after taking sleep medications at the University of Iowa's National Advance Driving Simulator, home of the most advanced driving simulator in the country.

A new study has proven that pregnant women who are overweight affect how their children grow and develop. A team led by a University of Iowa researcher compared the weight and height of babies born to overweight and obese mothers with those born to normal-weight mothers.

Iowa's children are healthy, happy, and feel safe in their communities and in their schools. Those are the findings from a University of Iowa-led survey of children and households in the state. The 2010 Iowa Child and Family Household Health Survey is the only statewide, population-based study of the health and well being of the state’s children.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have identified a key protein that causes muscles to atrophy. The protein, Gadd45a, is responsible for 40 percent of the gene activity associated with muscle deterioration. The finding opens the door to therapies to block Gadd45a and thus to deter muscle atrophy. Results appear in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Lauren Hughes, M.D., a 2009 graduate of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been selected as a 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.

A University of Iowa team of 30 researchers from four different colleges on campus is competing against 29 other teams from around the world to interpret complete DNA sequences from three different families in an effort to determine the medical problems each family faces.

Neurologist William Talman writes about the importance of studying chimps in Ebola virus research.

The Institute for Clinical and Translational Science has won $6.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue academic, educational, and research programs for researchers throughout the university.

Images created by the Cherished Portraits program at UI Children’s Hospital look like typical professional photos. These pictures, however, are anything but ordinary. The program provides portrait sessions for families experiencing stillbirth or newborn death, infants and children with life-threatening illnesses, children facing the end of their lives, or at the time of an unexpected death.

University of Iowa neurologist Daniel Tranel explains the value of the UI's Neurological Patient Registry, as part of a story about Tara Fall's "face blindness."

The University of Iowa Dance Marathon was named "Most Influential College Student or College Organization" in the Midwest by StayClassy, an online fundraising product for nonprofit organizations. Paid subscription required.