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DARPA announced NESD (neural engineering system design) in January 2016 with the goal of developing…Read more about DARPA provided funds to six groups working on High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interfaces

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded the University of California, Berkeley $21.6 million…Read more about $21.6 million funding from DARPA to build window into the brain

The campus’s Isacoff Lab has been granted about $21 million in funding from the Defense…Read more about Campus’s Isacoff Lab receives DARPA funding to research neural implants

The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute announces the selection of Markita Landry and collaborators Linda Wilbrecht,…Read more about Congratulations to the 2017 Radical Ideas in Brain Science Challenge Winning Team

Miller Research Fellowships provide support to exceptional individuals who intend to pursue promising postdoctoral research…Read more about Incoming postdocs Nikhil Bhatla and Louis Kang awarded Miller Research Fellowships

With $65 million in new funding, DARPA seeks to develop neural implants that make it possible…Read more about DARPA awards $65 million to develop the perfect, tiny two-way brain-computer interface

DARPA is known for issuing big challenges. Still, the mission statement for its new Neural Engineering…Read more about DARPA Wants Brain Implants That Record From 1 Million Neurons

Elon Musk isn't the only one looking to rummage around inside your skull. DARPA announced on…Read more about DARPA is helping six groups create neural interfaces for our brains

These days, it seems you’re nobody if you’re not working on a way to merge…Read more about DARPA Is Funding Brain-Computer Interfaces to Treat Blindness, Paralysis and Speech Disorders

DARPA has awarded contracts to five research organizations and one company that will support the Neural…Read more about Towards a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface

When Andrew Dillin, a cell biologist at the University of California Berkeley, set out to…Read more about Losing your sense of smell may help you lose weight—and it has nothing to do with taste

Mapping how language is represented in the human brain with Alex Huth This free public talk…Read more about Mapping language in the brain

“Back in the 1940s people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight…Read more about The worrying effects of working more and sleeping less

Would you be willing to give up the smell of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies or…Read more about Is sense of smell linked to being fatter or thinner?

When you have a stuffy nose, a slice of freshly baked apple pie tastes like…Read more about Mice shed weight when they can’t smell—but not because they stop eating

Having an exceptionally keen sense of smell would seem to be an unmitigated blessing: It can provide early warning of dangers, detect the presence of an attractive mate, and enhance the gustatory delight of a delicious meal.

But when you’re a mouse (or, perhaps, a human) and fattening...Read more about Does my sense of smell make me look fat? In mice, the answer seems to be yes

Synapses, including those using glutamate as a neurotransmitter, vary greatly in pre- and post-synaptic transmission…Read more about Improved imaging technique reveals synaptic transmission at quantal resolution in fruit fly larvae

Our sense of smell is key to the enjoyment of food, so it may be…Read more about Smelling your food makes you fat

Being able to assess our own memories helps us to avoid errors and prompts us…Read more about Brain Changes Accompany Development of Metamemory from Childhood to Adolescence

Mice, unlike cats and dogs, are able to move their whiskers to map out their…Read more about A mouse’s view of the world, seen through its whiskers

Congratulations to HWNI member Kaoru Saijo!Read more about Kaoru Saijo awarded Pew scholar grant

Despite numerous advances in fMRI technology, most components are optimized for the entire body. This…Read more about Advancements to functional imaging technique result in ultra-high resolution capture of human cortical columns

Haute couture can be credited for enhancing more than catwalks and red carpets. New research…Read more about Dressmakers found to have needle-sharp 3D vision

By 2022, UC Berkeley researcher Markita Landry thinks she will have developed the technology to…Read more about Shedding light on how antidepressants affect the brain

A UC Berkeley study of mice reveals, for the first time, how puberty hormones might…Read more about Puberty hormones trigger changes in youthful learning