Berkeley Neuroscience @UCBerkeleyNeuro
The latest news and publications from the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at @UCBerkeley. hwni.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA Joined July 2014-
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Silvia Bunge publishes developmental cognitive neuroscience textbook! bit.ly/3UlzYJS
The Bouchard lab and collaborators have developed a method to better predict outcomes for patients with TBI, with implications for other complex medical conditions. bit.ly/3TTCYvw
The Allen Institute has joined UC Berkeley, UCSF, and the University of Washington in the Weill Neurohub — a collaborative research network advancing treatments for neurological diseases.bit.ly/3TRUkcl
The Yartsev lab and collaborators have found that bats have similar neural and genetic machinery for vocal learning as humans — the first such discovery in a mammal — with potential implications for speech disorders. bit.ly/3xu2Qa0
A new study from the Jagust lab finds that excessive neural activity in brain networks could explain how the protein beta-amyloid drives accumulation of the protein tau, causing cognitive decline. bit.ly/4cLuKhR
Congratulations to HWNI members Meng-meng Fu and Preeya Khanna! bit.ly/4apQPkh
Rapé lab research suggests that constant stress triggered by clumping proteins is killing brain cells. bit.ly/3U5vlDH
Why does COVID-19 make you sneeze? bit.ly/3I993u3
For new professor, psychedelics and octopuses may hold keys to the human mind! bit.ly/48rVz7x
Are stressed-out brain cells the root cause of neurodegenerative disease? bit.ly/4bOoYve
Long awaited Department of Neuroscience to launch at UC Berkeley! bit.ly/48TTgLu
Read about cell types in the eye have ancient evolutionary origins from the Shekhar Lab! buff.ly/3NYUJaZ
PBS Prof. Emily Jacob’s article on a newly launched initiative to advance the study of women’s brain health published in Nature! buff.ly/4aOX16a
ACS Publications names Chris Chang as the next Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Chemical Research! buff.ly/3RWY3V0
Ultra-high resolution MRI brain scanner opens at UC Berkeley! buff.ly/3RXeAsb
Innovative design achieves tenfold better resolution for functional MRI brain imaging! buff.ly/3RWPrxO
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience researchers win awards, publish new research! buff.ly/3tMDK4I
Austin Roorda Awarded Rank Prize! buff.ly/48sDmaF
Berkeley Scientists Discover Retinal Cells that Help Stabilize Our World View buff.ly/4a39Rxe
Markita Landry named 2023 Schmidt Science Polymath! buff.ly/3RPUJuZ
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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy
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Sergey Stavisky @SergeyStavisky
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Holly Gildea @holly_gildea
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Jenna Adams @jennanadams
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Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT
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Our article on motion sensing properties of bipolar cells in the retina is out in @NatureComms First authors @mkorympidou and Sarah Strauss! My first article as ✨senior author✨! It's been an intellectual journey since the preprint stage, see 🧵! nature.com/articles/s4146…
And @shekharlab is here on Twitter!!!
Find out about Karthik Shekhar's groundbreaking collaborative research on common characteristics of glaucoma and Alzheimer's: buff.ly/3btl293.
Thank you so much to Dr. Michael Silver, Director of @UCBerkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, who gave our most popular talk of 2022 (so far!). Want to learn more about this #breakthrough research? Check out the recording of his talk: youtu.be/6i_ZSocyHIM
Today we are celebrating the science and life of Paul Greengard. His mentorship is one of the major reasons I am a working scientist today. I love the stories of his humor #GreengardCascade @RockefellerUniv
I just read it! Can’t recommend it enough. It seems all axons are branched more than we can make sense of — even RGCs.
Please do have a look at my new short essay entitled "A Life In Science, Ending Soon." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Congratulations to new Associate Professors Aaron Streets (@airstreets) and Michael Yartsev, granted tenure effective July 1, 2022!
"Wallis says these findings suggest that the hippocampus encodes not just spatial relationships, but 'any kind of relationship that you can imagine'" My latest for @UCBerkeleyNeuro about research on cognitive maps by @EricBKnudsen1 and Joni Wallis! neuroscience.berkeley.edu/brain-area-tha…
Ever wondered what is happening in our brains when we socialise in a group? Research from HFSP fellow Boaz Styr and colleagues @UCBerkeleyNeuro reveals a dedicated neural repertoire for group social interaction in fruit bats bit.ly/3riQCMh
New preprint! Beautiful work by @tsay_jonathan and @HyosubEKim, together with Arohi Saxena, @dariusparvin, @tdverstynen and @ivryrich, revisiting the mechanisms underlying use-dependent learning. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Check it out!
Use-dependent learning – the idea that future movements resemble practiced movements – is touted to be a primary motor learning mechanism. i.e., “Practice makes perfect!” But can UDL be further dissociated into distinct mechanisms? Yes, it can! bit.ly/3pwISFE 1/n🧵
Fun outing to @AngelIslandSP with lab @atiriac1 @PrefDirection @MiahPitcher @CVoufo, and those not on Twitter (Ben, Josh, Andy) and rotation students Odilia and Atehsa.
McKnight scholar. @MarthaBagnall (former Feller lab roton) gave fascinating talk on her lab’s work on how development links zebrafish gravity sensing circuits onto Mauthner cell escape behavior. So interesting, so impressive!
New study of the brain’s circuitry will track Parkinson’s disease from its origins. Afflicting more than 1 mil ppl in the U.S. alone, Parkinson’s produces symptoms ranging from tremors, slowness and stiffness to cognitive difficulties & depression. light.berkeley.edu/o/new-study-of…
A lot of real talk on here about ordering delays hampering new labs. A more uplifting story today: a full VR system just arrived in the mail from @MichaelBReiser & @fra_loe to bridge our crazy back-ordered ones. I'm so lucky to be in a field with such supportive colleagues!
Hi everyone "attending" @SfNtweets this year, check out our poster by @UCBerkeleyNeuro grad student @KatieCording on how loss of Tsc1 affects corticostriatal synaptic transmission and motor learning in mice. Poster #P048.08 - Autism: Synaptic and Cellular Mechanisms 🧠🐭
This study has recently been published in Cell Reports, we'd love your questions and feedback! Loss of Tsc1 from striatal direct pathway neurons impairs endocannabinoid-LTD and enhances motor routine learning cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Had a great time at the @UCBerkeleyNeuro retreat! Great talks and discussions. So nice to be in person as a full community again. Here's the 3rd year student data slam!
Glad to be back in-person hearing about great science at the @UCBerkeleyNeuro retreat! Congrats to @berkeleyMCB grad student Villy Karalis, representing the @BateupLab with a great talk!
And great fun today picnicking and hiking with students, postdocs, faculty, and families. It was a beautiful day on the Bay, at China Camp State Park. Here are about half of us, on a hike. @UCBerkeleyNeuro
Alumnus David Julius shares Nobel Prize for work on touch receptors news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/alu…
@ViraIefremova @berkeleyMCB @UCBerkeleyNeuro And shout-out to current @BateupLab post-docs and project scientists @PolinaK79181440 @IafratiJillian @BipanDeb @imSKM05 and soon to be new member @ThomasLetaoLi! #NPAW2021
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