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Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by The Next Web.Read more about Researchers are developing a device that can edit brain activity

Alzheimer’s disease develops when proteins in the brain form abnormal tangles, and a key player…Read more about New structure of tau protein, a key player in Alzheimer’s disease

Freja Ekman did research in the Schaffer lab.Read more about Top graduating senior champions neurodiversity

Two new longitudinal analyses suggest that even small elevations in brain amyloid, far below the…Read more about A Little Amyloid, A Lot of Trouble?

Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by Newsweek.Read more about Brain holography: We may soon be able to edit our memories and sensations with this new tech

Congratulations to HWNI members Yang Dan and Udi Isacoff!Read more about Yang Dan and Ehud Isacoff elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by Berkeley News.Read more about Editing brain activity with holography

Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by the Independent.Read more about Holograms projected onto brain could help replace lost senses

Eric Betzig, new Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute faculty member who will start as Professor of…Read more about New microscope can image subcellular dynamics, in 3D, in a live animal

In early 2017, John Tallarico and his team at Novartis started keeping tabs on intriguing…Read more about Novartis and Berkeley researchers team up to tackle the industry’s toughest drug targets

The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) is honored to announce its 2018 Young Investigator Award winners. All…Read more about Helen Bateup receives the C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy

Video features HWNI members Isacoff, Adesnik, Gallant, and Carmena.Read more about Watch “DARPA at Berkeley: Developing a Million Neuron Cortical Modem”

Congratulations to HWNI member Teresa Puthussery!Read more about Puthussery Lab Lands Journal of Neuroscience Cover

Research from Rikky Muller and HWNI members Michel Maharbiz and Jose Carmena.Read more about Berkeley engineers build smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulator

Three Berkeley Neuroscience PhD Program students received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Please join us in…Read more about Congrats to our latest NSF Fellowship Awardees

We would like to congratulate Neha Wadia (DeWeese Lab) for receiving this honor. Google created the PhD…Read more about Biophysics graduate student Neha Wadia receives 2018 Google PhD Fellowship

Research from Benjamin Smarr, a postdoc in the Kriegsfeld lab.Read more about Poor grades tied to class times that don’t match our biological clocks

Congratulations to Marla Feller, Professor and Head of Neurobiology, on receiving a 2018 Distinguished Faculty…Read more about Marla Feller receives Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award

Interview with Neuroscience PhD alum Ryan Neely (Carmena lab).Read more about Lights on learning: Cortico-striatal feedback required to learn brain control of an external device

Research from the Carmena lab, co-led by Neuroscience PhD alum Ryan Neely.Read more about Retraining the brain’s vision center to take action

Research from the Flannery lab.Read more about Repairing the Retina

Q&A with HWNI faculty member Markita Landry.Read more about Markita Landry aims to advance the frontiers of neuroscience and psychiatry with dopamine nanosensors

Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Matar Haller (Knight lab) about their new paper.Read more about The hidden link: Identifying cognitive processes that transform perception into action

If our bodies came with an instant happiness button, would we push it? That’s the…Read more about New podcast lays out path to happiness with no shortcuts

Research from the Ngai lab, explained by co-first author and Neuroscience PhD alum Levi Gadye.Read more about The promise of stem cells: Regeneration in the adult nervous system