New Insight into the Brain’s Timekeeper

New Insight into the Brain’s Timekeeper

Neurobiology and Behavior Professor Michael Yassa has published a new manuscript in the journal, Nature Neuroscience. In the study, led by Professor Yassa’s graduate student Maria Montchal, the research team identified areas of the brain that control how people precisely remember the correct order in which recent events have occurred.

Beyond Your Genes: Biology of Addiction

Beyond Your Genes: Biology of Addiction

In the first Dean’s Distinguished Lecture of the 2018-2019 School year, Neurobiology and Behavior Chair Marcelo Wood told a packed audience a compelling story on the biology of addiction.

California Academy of Sciences Fellows

California Academy of Sciences Fellows

Congratulations to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professors John C. Avise and Adriana Briscoe on being named Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences.

Light Exercise Can Enhance Memory Function

Light Exercise Can Enhance Memory Function

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research team assessed the effect of just 10 minutes of mild exercise on hippocampal memory function.