News Deciphering the Language of the Brain Understanding how brains work is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our times, but…georgeannJanuary 31, 2016
Event Davos 2016 – What If: Your Brain Confesses? Long the preserve of stage show performers and confidence tricksters, the ability to read minds…georgeannJanuary 23, 2016
News Outgoing Berkeley Lab director to take research helm at UC Berkeley Paul Alivisatos, an internationally renowned chemist who has run the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley…georgeannJanuary 21, 2016
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News Time to make a decision: Researchers have studied how brain activity changes throughout the process of choosing between different options In 1848, a railroad worker named Phineas Gage suffered an accident that was to secure…georgeannJanuary 15, 2016
News Will computers ever truly understand what we’re saying? From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo, machines seem to be getting better and better…georgeannJanuary 11, 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 White House to honor Alivisatos, Hu with National Medals of Science, Technology Paul Alivisatos, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of chemistry, and Chenming…georgeannDecember 22, 2015
News What We Learned About Alzheimer’s in 2015 Alzheimer’s continues to be one of the deadliest, costliest, and most complicated diseases—but science might…georgeannDecember 17, 2015
Research Discovery ‘Connector hubs’ are the champions of brain coordination Swinging a bat at a 90-mph fastball requires keen visual, cognitive and motor skills. But…georgeannNovember 24, 2015
Profile PhD student Christine Liu is studying how nicotine affects the brain and promoting science through art Christine Liu Christine Liu is a second year Neuroscience PhD Student in the Lammel Lab…georgeannNovember 23, 2015
News To Accelerate Pace of Discovery, Neuroscientists and Funders Launch Resource Aimed at Breaking Data Barriers in Brain Research With scientists storing data in scores of different ways, Neurodata Without Borders provides a common…georgeannNovember 20, 2015
Berkeley Neuroscience in the News To get ahead in your career, disrupt yourself first In her new book, Disrupt Yourself, Whitney Johnson argues that the principles from Harvard Business…georgeannNovember 19, 2015
Research Discovery Neurodata Without Borders The common data format for neurophysiology has been released! image by Camelia.boban The latest neurotechnologies enable…georgeannNovember 18, 2015
Research Discovery A tool to study the dynamic process of receptor activation Cartoon representation of the molecular structure of metabotropic glutamate receptor 3, by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD…georgeannNovember 17, 2015
Profile Seeking Data Wisdom Landing a spacecraft on a hurtling comet or cloning genes of extinct animals. Science and…georgeannNovember 17, 2015