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 →
In a recent post, we entreated you to communicate your science. One way to do that is to create a science podcast. I have been getting to know the people behind... read more →
Touch Me is THIS SUNDAY at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. We have been hard at work preparing this exciting event and have a few new important things to mention. The amazing Dr.... read more →
Why are you a scientist? I put out a survey asking this question and have collected twenty-seven answers so far. The overwhelmingly positive responses have been a great reminder of... read more →