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Neuroscience faculty member Michael Yartsev has won the 2025 Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences!Read more about Michael Yartsev wins Richard Lounsbery Award

Neuroscience faculty member Gül Dölen discussed the therapeutic potential of psychedelics on the show Radiolab.Read more about Gül Dölen featured on Radiolab

The study is led by Neuroscience Professor Lance Kriegsfeld, and Neuroscience Professor Linda Wilbrecht is a co-principal investigator.Read more about Researchers awarded $4.5 million to study connection between circadian rhythms and bipolar disorder

Neuroscience faculty member Linda Wilbrecht discussed decision-making on a panel recorded by the “Berkeley Talks” podcast.Read more about Berkeley Talks: How do we make better decisions?

Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Markita Landry!Read more about Markita Landry receives inaugural CITRIS Innovation Fellowship and AIC Award

A preprint from the lab of Neuroscience faculty member Markita Landry, covered by Nature.Read more about How to avoid common data distortions with better bar graphs

Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Richard Ivry!Read more about Richard Ivry receives Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

Thank you to Carla Shatz and Corey Goodman for making gifts to endow this major annual lectureship!Read more about Carla & Corey Lectureship in neuroscience launches at UC Berkeley

Neuroscience faculty member Robert Knight shows what happens to the brain after blows to the head in this video from the University of California.Read more about Watch Robert Knight explain how concussions really work

The drug was developed by Neuroscience faculty member Richard Kramer.Read more about Drug to improve vision in people with advanced retinal disease authorized for phase 2 clinical trial

Jacobowitz is an undergraduate researcher in the Kaufer lab.Read more about Undergrad Anna Jacobowitz investigates effects of psychedelics on the brain

Commentary by postdoctoral fellow Angelo Forli and faculty member Michael Yartsev, published in Cell.Read more about Scientists call for paradigm shift to better understand the neuroscience of natural intelligence

Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Preeya Khanna!Read more about Preeya Khanna wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Markita Landry!Read more about Markita Landry included in Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists

Please welcome our Neuroscience PhD Program incoming class of 2024.Read more about A warm welcome to our new PhD students!

Congratulations to Angelo Forli, a postdoctoral fellow in the Yartsev lab!Read more about Angelo Forli wins Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award

Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Doris Tsao!Read more about Doris Tsao wins António Champalimaud Vision Award

Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Markita Landry for being named the 2024 Laureate in Chemical Sciences!Read more about Markita Landry named Laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Helen Bateup!Read more about Helen Bateup part of team awarded $12M to uncover genetic pathways in autism