Advance makes MRI scans more than seven times faster
An international team of physicists and neuroscientists has reported a breakthrough in magnetic resonance imaging that allows brain scans more than seven times faster than currently possible. In a...
View ArticleNIH awards UC Berkeley $7.2 million to advance brain initiative
The National Institutes of Health today announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama’s BRAIN Initiative, including three awards to the University of California, Berkeley, totaling...
View ArticleBerkeley team to transform MRI
At a busy imaging lab at the University of California, Berkeley researchers are preparing for a journey to unmapped corners of the human brain. To get there, the team led by neuroscience professor...
View ArticleThe Brain Imaging Center: A campus resource for cutting-edge research
A flattened representation of the human brain imaged at the BIC. Colors correspond to the brain’s activation in response to certain words or images. Image courtesy of Alex Huth, Gallant Lab. By Sarah...
View ArticleAsk them Anything about fMRI
In advance of this month’s 2015 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, PLOS Neuro Community today hosted a ‘PLOS Science Wednesday’ Ask Me Anything (AMA) on redditscience. The AMA featured...
View ArticleFour projects garner $1.7 million from federal BRAIN initiative
Four UC Berkeley research teams will share $1.7 million from the federal government’s BRAIN initiative, part of $70 million in new grants announced Thursday, Oct. 13, by the National Institutes of...
View ArticleUC scientists awarded more than $9 million from federal BRAIN Initiative
Fourteen University of California research teams will share $9.5 million from the federal government’s BRAIN Initiative, part of $70 million in new grants announced by the National Institutes of...
View ArticleHow a Map of Your Brain Can Trick Your Brain
Color maps in scientific papers are too colorful, according to data scientists. These figures, they say, can be so vivid that they trick people’s brains into thinking scientific results are more...
View ArticlePlaying high school football changes the teenage brain
A single season of high school football may be enough to cause microscopic changes in the structure of the brain, according to a new study by researchers at UC Berkeley, Duke University and the...
View ArticleLetting the data speak for itself: PhD alum Alex Huth models language...
“If you can get enough hours of data, enough data points, then we can let the data tell us what kind of features are important, instead of being forced to guess.” Alex Huth, PhD program alum (entering...
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View ArticleHow a Map of Your Brain Can Trick Your Brain
Color maps in scientific papers are too colorful, according to data scientists. These figures, they... The post How a Map of Your Brain Can Trick Your Brain appeared first on Berkeley Neuroscience.
View ArticlePlaying high school football changes the teenage brain
A single season of high school football may be enough to cause microscopic changes in... The post Playing high school football changes the teenage brain appeared first on Berkeley Neuroscience.
View ArticleWorld’s highest resolution functional MRI brain scanner installed at Helen...
HWNI member David Feinberg led the development of this cutting-edge NexGen T7 MRI brain scanner. Watch the drone video of it getting delivered to campus! The post World’s highest resolution functional...
View ArticleGallant and Liu to serve as co-directors of the Henry H. Wheeler, Jr....
Congratulations to Jack Gallant and Chunlei Liu for becoming co-directors of the BIC, and thank you to former director Mark D’Esposito for years of dedicated leadership. The post Gallant and Liu to...
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View ArticleUC scientists awarded more than $9 million from federal BRAIN Initiative
Fourteen University of California research teams will share $9.5 million from the federal government’s BRAIN... The post UC scientists awarded more than $9 million from federal BRAIN Initiative...
View ArticleHow a Map of Your Brain Can Trick Your Brain
Color maps in scientific papers are too colorful, according to data scientists. These figures, they... The post How a Map of Your Brain Can Trick Your Brain appeared first on Berkeley Neuroscience.
View ArticlePlaying high school football changes the teenage brain
A single season of high school football may be enough to cause microscopic changes in... The post Playing high school football changes the teenage brain appeared first on Berkeley Neuroscience.
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