News From molecules to memories Neuroscience PhD student Gergey Mousa explains how HWNI scientists cross disciplines to understand neurodegenerative diseases.KailyssMay 4, 2022
Research Discovery Antabuse may help revive vision in people with progressive blinding disorders The Kramer lab and collaborators found that the drug improves vision in vision-impaired mice.KailyssMarch 23, 2022
Announcement Gomez, Kramer, and Brohawn are the winners of the 2020 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy Congratulations to HWNI members Andrea Gomez, Richard H. Kramer, and Stephen Brohawn for having their…barbaraMay 19, 2020
Research Discovery Light-activated antagonists for the GABA A receptor family A comprehensive toolkit to advance the study of inhibition on the cellular, circuit, and organismal…georgeannFebruary 16, 2016
Research Discovery Family of light-sensitive inhibitory receptors enables precise control of neural activity Researchers have genetically modified the entire family of GABAA receptor subtypes, which mediate inhibitory synaptic…georgeannDecember 29, 2015
Announcement NIH awards UC Berkeley $7.2 million to advance brain initiative The National Institutes of Health today announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama’s…georgeannSeptember 30, 2014
Announcement Three Bay Area institutions join forces to seed transformative brain research Two state-of-the-art research areas – nanotech and optogenetics – were the dominant theme last Thursday,…georgeannSeptember 25, 2014
Profile UC Berkeley researchers explore memory formation The mystery of how memories are made, stored and retrieved is closer to being solved,…georgeannApril 14, 2014