Announcement Marty Banks elected to the National Academy of Sciences Berkeley Optometry and Vision Science professor Martin Banks has been elected to the National Academy of…Cari IrwinMay 1, 2019
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Matthew Walker Discusses Better Bedtime Rituals From meditation to melatonin to putting on fuzzy socks, we all have routines to help…Cari IrwinApril 27, 2019
Announcement Puthussery Wins Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs Teresa Puthussery receives award for Outstanding GSI Mentorship!Cari IrwinApril 26, 2019
Announcement Kristin Scott elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Nine UC Berkeley faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,…Cari IrwinApril 17, 2019
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
Research Discovery Face it, the face is not enough to perceive emotion Actor James Franco looks sort of happy as he records a video diary in the…Cari IrwinFebruary 25, 2019
Announcement Wilbrecht Lab wins a SFARI Pilot Award The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is pleased to announce that it intends to…Cari IrwinFebruary 22, 2019