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Excessive worry about COVID-19 is becoming a mental health pandemic unto itself. But when is anxiety useful, and when is it destructive? At UC Berkeley, Sonia Bishop , associate professor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience, has studied anxiety and how it affects decision-making.Read more about What use is worry? Psychologist explains anxiety's pros and cons

Research from the Ji lab.Read more about High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals

Weill Neurohub is supporting five inaugural high-impact neuroscience projects. A pioneering research network, the Weill Neurohub unites three premier West Coast public universities to advance treatments for brain diseases. This initial project funding will support the development of foundational...Read more about HWNI faculty to receive Weill Neurohub funding for foundational projects

“I’m basically a microscopist who wants to be a neurobiologist,” says Na Ji from the…Read more about How joy and wide-ranging curiosity leads to neurobiology tools for new types of questions

The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) calls for proposals to the Rennie Fund.Read more about 2020 Call for Proposals: Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy

Research from the Dillin lab.Read more about Brain cells protect muscles from wasting away

Stephen Brohawn has also been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan FoundationRead more about Brohawn named a 2020 Sloan Fellow

HWNI member David Feinberg led the development of this cutting-edge NexGen 7T MRI brain scanner.…Read more about World’s highest resolution functional MRI brain scanner installed at Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Helen Bateup’s lab found that deleting a gene that causes a neurodevelopmental disorder from dopamine neurons reduces cognitive flexibility in mice, with potential implications for autism and other disorders.Read more about New study reveals molecular and cellular pathways underlying cognitive inflexibility

Congratulations to Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute members Kevin Weiner and Stephen Brohawn for winning early-career investigator awards from the American Association for Anatomy! Only four scientists received these early-career awards this year.Read more about Weiner and Brohawn win early-career investigator awards

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has picked long-time UC Berkeley neuroscientist John Ngai to head its BRAIN Initiative, a multibillion-dollar federal research push to develop new tools that will help scientists understand how the brain works and lead to new treatments for brain dysfunction.Read more about John Ngai named director of NIH BRAIN Initiative

By combining electron microscopy (EM) with the latest super-resolution microscopy (SR), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and UC Berkeley scientists have obtained exquisitely detailed views of the complex innards of cells, all in 3D.Read more about Merging old and new microscopy yields best 3D view yet inside cells

"As a neurologist, Robert Knight has seen what happens when the brain crashes around violently inside the skull. And he’s aware of the often tragic consequences."Read more about New helmet design can deal with sports' twists and turns

HWNI member Silvia Bunge is senior author on the study.Read more about Brain scans could flag children’s future mental health problems

Learn about our visits to the ABRCMS and SFN conferences.Read more about Berkeley Neuroscience members meet prospective PhD students at fall conferences

Research from the Kaufer lab and colleagues.Read more about Drugs that quell brain inflammation reverse dementia

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected four projects to receive the 2020 Memory…Read more about Isacoff receives McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award

HWNI member Eric Betzig is a co-founder of UC Berkeley's Advanced Bioimaging Center.Read more about New center illuminates ‘microscopic universe within each cell’

Five Berkeley faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement…Read more about Schaffer and Ivry elected fellows of the AAAS

The paper is co-authored by HWNI member Anne Collins.Read more about Ten simple rules for computational modeling of behavioral data

Research from the Feller lab.Read more about Babies in the womb may see more than we thought

The Sommer lab has developed a model that uses neuronal “spikes” and rhythmic activity to help explain how the brain performs complex computations, which has implications for machine learningRead more about New model of neural processing could help us understand the brain and create better AI

Daniel Cardozo Pinto, a former undergrad in the Lammel lab, is first author on a new paper in Nature Communications! Read more about his research and path in science.Read more about Undergraduate researcher maps brain circuitry and reveals the limitations of a commonly used research method

HWNI is thrilled be at the forefront of this innovative $106 million partnership between UCB,…Read more about $106M Weill Neurohub: Philanthropy creates a groundbreaking partnership to cure disease

Research from the Walker lab.Read more about Stressed to the max? Deep sleep can rewire the anxious brain