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Neuroengineers bring science cred, Berkeley feel to ‘Transcendence’ film
When Hollywood knocked on the doors of UC Berkeley engineering professors Michel Maharbiz and Jose Carmena, the researchers answered. Director Wally Pfister tapped their expertise in neural engineering...
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Commonly available blood-pressure drug prevents epilepsy after brain injury
UC Berkeley neuroscientist Daniela Kaufer and colleagues in Israel and Germany have shown in rats that a drug commonly prescribed for hypertension can nearly eliminate the epilepsy that often follows...
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CNEP researchers target brain circuitry to treat intractable mental disorders
Researchers from the UC Berkeley-UCSF Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses are embarking on an ambitious $26 million project to develop new approaches to mental illness by using brain implants...
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Your genes affect your betting behavior
People playing betting games engage two main areas of the brain: the medial prefrontal cortex and the striatum. Ming Hsu of UC Berkeley and Eric Set of the University of Illinois scanned 12 genes...
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Researcher Michael Jordan wins $100,000 Rumelhart Prize for cognitive science
UC Berkeley's Michael Jordan, a leading researcher in computer science and statistics, is the 2015 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize, a prestigious honor reserved for those who have made...
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Berkeley to host international neuroscience database to speed brain discoveries
UC Berkeley, a partner in "Neurodata Without Borders," will host a neuroscience database to make the digital information more usable and accessible and accelerate the pace of discoveries about the...
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Shining light on brain circuits to study learning, memory
NSF has given Ehud Isacoff, director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, $300,000 over two years to develop a new technology that uses light to tweak the synapses of brain cells to determine how...
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Three Bay Area institutions join forces to seed transformative brain research
As scientists rally around President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative, three Bay Area research institutions - UC Berkeley, UCSF and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - have decided to invest in high-risk,...
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NIH awards UC Berkeley $7.2 million to advance brain initiative
The National Institutes of Health announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative, including 3 awards to UC Berkeley totaling nearly $7.2 million over 3 years. The...
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Why we can’t tell a Hollywood heartthrob from his stunt double
Johnny Depp has an unforgettable face. Tony Angelotti, his stunt double in “Pirates of the Caribbean,” does not. So why is it that when they’re swashbuckling on screen, audiences worldwide see them...
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UC Berkeley/UCSF center to focus on aging, prion diseases
Andy Dillin of UC Berkeley & Nobelist Stan Prusiner of UCSF will lead a new integrated center for research on neurodegenerative diseases, focusing on the ways proteins can malfunction within cells....
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New front in war on Alzheimer’s, other protein-folding diseases
Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, have been linked to the accumulation of improperly folded proteins in the brain. How they collect is a mystery, but Andrew Dillin and his lab...
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‘Sleepless in America’ documentary to feature Berkeley research
UC Berkeley neuroscientist and sleep researcher Matthew Walker will be featured Nov. 30 in Sleepless in America, a documentary on the National Geographic Channel that lays out in gripping detail the...
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Scientists detect brain network that gives humans superior reasoning skills
When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. UC Berkeley scientists have found mounting brain evidence that helps explain how humans have...
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Brain’s iconic seat of speech goes silent when we actually talk
The brain's speech area, named after 19th century French physician Pierre Paul Broca, shuts down when we talk out loud, according to a new study that challenges the long-held belief that "Broca's area"...
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Sloan fellowships give research boost to nine young faculty members
Nine UC Berkeley faculty members were awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships to boost their early-career research. They are Naomi Ginsberg and Thomas Maimone in chemistry; Benjamin Handel in...
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Anxious people more apt to make bad decisions amid uncertainty
Highly anxious people have more trouble deciding how best to handle life’s uncertainties. They may even catastrophize, interpreting, say, a lover’s tiff as a doomed relationship or a workplace change...
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Altering brain chemistry makes us more sensitive to inequality
What if there were a pill that made you more compassionate? A new study finds that giving a drug that changes the neurochemical balance in the brain causes a greater willingness to engage in prosocial...
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Neuroscientist works to see through Alzheimer’s disease
If early intervention is key, then so is the ability to detect even the slightest sign of neurological damage. UC Berkeley neuroscientist William Jagust is using statistical and computational...
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Poor sleep linked to toxic buildup of Alzheimer’s protein, memory loss
Sleep may be a missing piece of the Alzheimer's puzzle. The toxic protein that is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease blocks the deepest stages of sleep, resulting in memory decline, according to new...
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