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The Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation will award up to five outstanding dissertation prizes in cognitive science.Read more about PhD alum Falk Lieder wins Glushko Dissertation Prize

PHILADELPHIA—The Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences (MINS) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Yartsev, PhD, an assistant professor of Neurobiology and Engineering with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the department of...Read more about Yartsev wins Rising Star Award from Penn Medicine’s Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences

Research from the Silver lab.Read more about Paying attention can heighten perception by quieting internally generated brain activity

Why neuroscience needs girls: PhD alum Jacobs writes article for kids, covering research by alum BeeryRead more about Why neuroscience needs girls: PhD alum Jacobs writes article for kids, covering research by alum Beery

The SEP awards the Howard Crosby Warren Medal annually for outstanding achievement in Experimental Psychology in the United States and Canada.Read more about Knight awarded the 2020 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists

MCB Professor of Neurobiology, Executive Director of the Miller Institute and member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Marla Feller, has been honored with a UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching AwardRead more about Feller Receives 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award

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

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

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

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

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