Research Discovery Fox squirrels use ‘chunking’ to organize their favorite nuts Like trick-or-treaters sorting their Halloween candy haul, fox squirrels apparently organize their stashes of nuts…georgeannSeptember 12, 2017
Announcement Stephan Lammel receives Hellman Fellowship Stephan Lammel, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, received a 2017 Hellman Fellows Award. Lammel studies midbrain dopamine…georgeannAugust 29, 2017
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News What the ‘Game of Thrones’ Dragons Might Really Look Like, According to Science Last week's "Game of Thrones" episode ended with a chilling image: massive, gnarled eyelids sliding…georgeannAugust 25, 2017
Announcement $21.6 million funding from DARPA to build window into the brain The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded the University of California, Berkeley $21.6 million…georgeannJuly 13, 2017
Announcement Congratulations to the 2017 Radical Ideas in Brain Science Challenge Winning Team The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute announces the selection of Markita Landry and collaborators Linda Wilbrecht,…georgeannJuly 12, 2017
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Losing your sense of smell may help you lose weight—and it has nothing to do with taste When Andrew Dillon, a cell biologist at the University of California Berkeley, set out to…georgeannJuly 9, 2017
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Does my sense of smell make me look fat? In mice, the answer seems to be yes Having an exceptionally keen sense of smell would seem to be an unmitigated blessing: It…georgeannJuly 5, 2017
Research Discovery A mouse’s view of the world, seen through its whiskers Mice, unlike cats and dogs, are able to move their whiskers to map out their…georgeannJune 27, 2017
Alumni Profile Recent PhD graduate Brian Isett studies how tactile textures and shapes are represented in the brain Brian Isett The building blocks of experience Brian Isett has long been interested in…georgeannJune 17, 2017