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November 17, 2020

Home over hospital: PhD alum Elena Allen develops products to manage heart failure at home

Originally Published November 17, 2020

“To me, it seemed like building something — whether it’s an app, or an actual tool, or a device that someone uses — was a more concrete goal that I could literally put my hands on.”

Elena Allen, Neuroscience PhD Program alum (entering class of 2003)

October 30, 2020

Berkeley Neuro PhD Program: ASK US ANYTHING!
On October 29th Neuroscience PhD students hosted a Q&A for prospective applicants. If you missed the event we invite you to read the full transcript or view the recording.

October 1, 2020

Structural basis for pH gating of the two-pore domain K<sup>+/sup> channel TASK2

Nature. 2020 Sep 30. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2770-2. Online ahead of print.

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September 5, 2020

Sleep Disturbance Forecasts β-Amyloid Accumulation across Subsequent Years

Curr Biol. 2020 Aug 28:S0960-9822(20)31171-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.017. Online ahead of print.

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Magnetotactic bacteria accumulate a large pool of iron distinct from their magnetite crystals

Appl Environ Microbiol. 2020 Sep 4:AEM.01278-20. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01278-20. Online ahead of print.

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September 3, 2020

Beyond dichotomies in reinforcement learning

Nat Rev Neurosci. 2020 Oct;21(10):576-586. doi: 10.1038/s41583-020-0355-6. Epub 2020 Sep 1.

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September 2, 2020

Corrigendum to "Disentangling the systems contributing to changes in learning during adolescence" [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 41, 2020, 100732]

Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2020 Oct;45:100854. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100854. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

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PMID:32868238 | DOI:10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100854

September 1, 2020

Rethinking amblyopia 2020

Vision Res. 2020 Nov;176:118-129. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.07.014. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

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Defect-Accommodating Intermediates Yield Selective Low-Temperature Synthesis of YMnO<sub>3</sub> Polymorphs

Inorg Chem. 2020 Sep 21;59(18):13639-13650. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02023. Epub 2020 Aug 31.

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July 13, 2020

From brains to self-driving cars: PhD alum Helene Moorman’s path from academia to industry
Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Helene Moorman to learn how she went from. Original Publication: July 13, 2020

April 15, 2020

Disorder in a dish: PhD alum Sundari Chetty uses human cells to study autism and schizophrenia
UPDATE DECEMBER 2022: Chetty has moved from Stanford and is now an assistant professor of… Original Publication: April 15, 2020

February 3, 2020

From bench to bedside: PhD alum Oscar Vazquez works to make new treatments a reality
Alumni Profile with Oscar Vazquez “I've always wanted to work to shorten the gap between discovery and actual use in… Original Publication: February 3, 2020

December 12, 2019

Berkeley Neuroscience members meet prospective PhD students at fall conferences
Neuroscience PhD student Christiane Voufo (L) at ABRCMS 2019, pictured with her cousin who was…

December 4, 2019

Source: Berkeley News | December 4, 2019
Drugs that quell brain inflammation reverse dementia
Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow or even reverse the cognitive…

December 3, 2019

Increasing complexity: PhD alum Gautam Agarwal challenges the brain to understand how it works in the real world
In this Q&A, Gautum Agarwal, now a research scientist in the Sommer lab, discusses how...
Source: McKnight Foundation |December 3, 2019
Isacoff receives McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected four projects to receive the 2020 Memory… December 3, 2019

November 27, 2019

Source: Berkeley News |November 26, 2019
Schaffer and Ivry elected fellows of the AAAS
Five Berkeley faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement…
Source: Berkeley News |November 27, 2019
New center illuminates ‘microscopic universe within each cell’
In a video posted online this week, Seeker, a San Francisco-based digital media network focused…

November 26, 2019

Source: ELife Sciences| Nov 26, 2019
Ten simple rules for computational modeling of behavioral data
New guidelines for scientists who use computational modelling to analyse behavioural data have been published… November 26, 2019

November 25, 2019

Source: Berkeley News |November 25, 2019
Babies in the womb may see more than we thought
By the second trimester, long before a baby’s eyes can see images, they can detect…