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We are deeply saddened by the loss of HWNI member and professor emeritus of psychology…Read more about Remembering Art Shimamura

HWNI member Andrea Gomez was awarded a Young Investigator Grant from The Brain & Behavior… October 7, 2020Read more about Gomez awarded Young Investigator Grant

HWNI members Silvia Bunge and Kevin Weiner, with UCSF colleagues, are leading two of the…Read more about Bunge and Weiner awarded funding from the UCSF-UCB Schwab Dyslexia & Cognitive Diversity Center

In this article, Neuroscience PhD student Celia Ford explores diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus.Read more about 2020's wake up calls stir action in STEM

HWNI member Helen Bateup is part of the team that will study genes implicated in Parkinson's research.Read more about $14 million boost for Parkinson's disease research

HWNI member Ke Xu is part of a collaboration to study steroid hormones in Alzheimer's disease.Read more about UC Berkeley researchers awarded Pew Innovation Funding

Michael Silver, director of the Neuroscience PhD Program, will lead this unique new HWNI center.Read more about UC Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic science and education

Congratulations to Matt for winning a fellowship, and Holly and Tobias for winning teaching awards!Read more about PhD students Matt Davis, Holly Gildea, and Tobias Schmid win fellowship, awards

Get to know the Neuroscience PhD Program entering class of 2020!Read more about Welcome to our new PhD students!

Assistant professor Michael Yartsev was one of only six faculty worldwide to receive this award.Read more about Michael Yartsev appointed as a Vallee Scholar

The Walker and Jagust labs found that sleep quality can predict accumulation of beta-amyloid.Read more about How we sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer’s disease begins

Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD student Malak El-Quessny (Feller lab), explaining her new paper.Read more about Which way is up? Retinal neurons know, even when light deprivation during development distorts their shape

The opinion piece discusses the work of Jack Gallant, Jose Carmena, and Michel Maharbiz.Read more about HWNI scientists featured in NY Times article on brain-machine interfaces

Neuroscience pioneer and HWNI member Marian Diamond was named a California Woman of the Century.Read more about Marian Diamond named a California Woman of the Century

The Knight and Walker labs have discovered how to identify REM sleep in EEG recordings.Read more about Brain noise contains unique signature of dream sleep

Congratulations to professor Matthew Walker for winning the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization!Read more about Sleep researcher Matthew Walker wins Carl Sagan science prize

New research from the Whitney lab shows that people perceive the location of objects in…Read more about Vision scientists discover why humans literally don't see eye to eye

In this profile of Professor Daniela Kaufer, read about how she restored youthful functioning in…Read more about Can We Cure Dementia?

Congratulations to HWNI co-founder, former director, and current adjunct professor Corey Goodman for being awarded…Read more about Corey Goodman awarded Gruber Neuroscience Prize

Read the message below from the director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Ehud (Udi) Isacoff, Neuroscience PhD Program Director Michael Silver, and PhD Program Manager Candace Groskreutz, condemning racial injustice, reaffirming our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and...Read more about Message of support to the HWNI community

Congratulations to Jack Gallant and Chunlei Liu for becoming co-directors of the BIC.Read more about Gallant and Liu to serve as co-directors of the Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Berkeley Brain Imaging Center

A new video produced by the Simons Institute examines the computational processes by which the brain builds visual models of the external world....Read more about Perception as inference: The brain and computation

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) faculty members Stephen Brohawn, Diana Bautista, Hillel Adesnik, and Markita Landry have received funding to address the urgent problem of COVID-19.Read more about HWNI faculty awarded grants to tackle COVID-19

Congratulations to HWNI members Andrea Gomez, Richard Kramer and Stephen Brohawn!Read more about Gomez, Kramer, and Brohawn are the winners of the 2020 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy

Read our Q&A with first author Alex Naka, a Neuroscience PhD Program alum, about a new study that resulted from a collaboration between the Ngai and Adesnik labs.Read more about Same neurotransmitter, different functions: Identification of subnetworks of somatostatin neurons in sensory processing