Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Sleep is your superpower Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep…Cari IrwinApril 13, 2019
Announcement Bateup appointed as a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Congratulations to MCB Assistant Professors Helen Bateup & Dirk Hockemeyer, who have both been named Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators! This appointment…Cari IrwinApril 3, 2019
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News UC Berkeley gene therapy helps blind mice gain sight, could be used to cure blindness A team of scientists at UC Berkeley used a breakthrough gene therapy to help blind mice gain…Cari IrwinMarch 17, 2019
Research Discovery With single gene insertion, blind mice regain sight It was surprisingly simple. University of California, Berkeley, scientists inserted a gene for a green-light…Cari IrwinMarch 15, 2019
Alumni Profile PhD program alum Liberty Hamilton eavesdrops on how the human brain processes natural sounds “Something we can really add to the field is being able to understand at a…Cari IrwinMarch 6, 2019
Alumni Profile Letting the data speak for itself: PhD alum Alex Huth models language representation in the brain As an Assistant Professor at UT Austin, PhD alum Alex Huth uses large sets of…Cari IrwinMarch 6, 2019
Research Discovery Discovering drivers in hippocampal circuits Hippocampal circuitry enables the emergence of activity patterns that are crucial for spatial learning and…Cari IrwinMarch 1, 2019
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Understanding a dog’s superhero snout Dogs are thousands of times better than humans at picking up scents, which is why…Cari IrwinMarch 1, 2019
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Four Sets of Mice Call Popular Autism Theory into Question An analysis of four mouse models negates certain assumptions underlying the “signaling imbalance theory,” a…Cari IrwinFebruary 26, 2019