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Formal schooling improves a child’s attention and changes the brain. Tens of millions of children…Read more about This Is Your Brain on First Grade

Stephan Lammel, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, received a 2017 Hellman Fellows Award. Lammel studies midbrain dopamine…Read more about Stephan Lammel receives Hellman Fellowship

You will never be as clever as you were at the point you left education. And if that’s not depressing enough, even then you were quite possibly past your prime.Read more about Stay in eduation to keep your ageing brain agile

A study led by campus researchers found that higher levels of education are linked to…Read more about UC Berkeley study finds that more education leads to better cognitive function later in life

Higher levels of education are tied to later ages of peak cognitive functioning, according to…Read more about More education linked to better cognitive functioning later in life

Reasoning is hard cognitive work. It’s what allows you to understand that if A is greater than…Read more about How Children’s Brains Learn to Reason

Chemistry professor Evan Miller and his co-investigators are the recipients of the NeuroNex Innovation Award…Read more about Evan Miller receives NeuroNex Innovation Award

Marian Diamond, a pathbreaking neuroscientist whose research — including a study of Albert Einstein’s preserved…Read more about Marian Diamond, neuroscientist who gave new meaning to ‘use it or lose it,’ dies at 90

Marian Cleeves Diamond, one of the founders of modern neuroscience who was the first to…Read more about Marian Diamond, known for studies of Einstein’s brain, dies at 90

Jose Carmena and Michel Maharbiz have received a prestigious 2017 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience…Read more about Jose Carmena and Michel Maharbiz receive 2017 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

“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

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

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