Student research networks host social and professional activities designed to enhance the ECR experience, and these networks help ECRs share knowledge while…
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Early Career Research Community Three Tips for Building a Student-Led Student Research Network
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Early Career Research Community Round-up of #FENS2016 Neurodegenerative Disease PLOS Science Wednesday AMA
Your brain is full of connections and pathways that run from one section to the next, buzzing with messages for one another…
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Brain Why do children believe in Santa? PLOS ONE studies examine how children conceive truth
How old were you when you stopped believing in Santa Claus? Evidence shows you were probably about five years old. But why…
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Neuroscience Learning to Fly: Decoding Neural Circuits in Drosophila melanogaster
Model organisms are a special type of technology. Scientists can make then do things that we value as humans but that they…
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Memory A new role for an old Alzheimer’s-related protein
Loss of memory is a well-established symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Also, cognitive impairment and personality changes are also observed in these patients…
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Neuroscience Reflections on using Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat neuropsychiatric disorders
By Daniel Albaugh One of my most fascinating experiences as a doctoral student of neuroscience began with an early morning trip to…
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Artificial Intelligence “Synthetics” – Berkeley Scientific’s Spring 2014 Issue
Berkeley Scientific publishes undergraduate research, features articles, and interviews with UC Berkeley professors spanning many areas of science. In the Spring 2014 issue…