Allyson Mackey wants to understand how the brain changes during development and learning, a question that has interested her since she was babysitting and working in a toy store in her... read more →
The building blocks of experience Brian Isett has long been interested in the big, difficult questions about perception. His drive to understand individual experience led him to study philosophy and write... read more →
Bradley Voytek joined the Berkeley Neuroscience PhD Program in 2004 and completed his thesis work in Bob Knight’s lab, studying the relative contributions of prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia networks to working memory in... read more →
Decision making is an internal process that is not time locked to observable sensory inputs or behavioral outputs. This makes the neural processes underlying decision making difficult to investigate. In... read more →
A comprehensive toolkit to advance the study of inhibition on the cellular, circuit, and organismal level The precise excitatory signaling of the nervous system would be impossible without inhibition. Inhibition... read more →
Michael Yartsev has joined the Berkeley neuroscience community as Assistant Professor affiliated with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Department of Bioengineering, and Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute. The Yartsev lab... read more →
It is possible to eat until your stomach bursts open, but most people will never come close to this horror. Feeling like your stomach might burst, for example after gorging... read more →
Published in Berkeley Science Review [Issue 26; Spring 2014]. Link opens pdf of the gorgeous magazine. Michel Maharbiz is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer... read more →
Our hot off the presses magazine article, “This is your mind on grad school,” has clearly struck a nerve. In just five days it has had over 27,500 views and... read more →