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2018-02-10

  What we can learn from the "dinosaurs of marriage"

In 1989, UC Berkeley psychologist Robert Levenson began to study a group of people who had been married at least 15 years or 35 years, depending on age, to get a better sense of what fairly successful marriages are like. This was not purely a behaviora... 		  University of California author
2018-02-05

  Why nutrition studies can't be one-size-fits-all

If you’ve been around awhile, chances are you’ve experienced foods that were once touted to be good for you, suddenly becoming the worst thing you could possibly eat. Or at least that’s how it feels when there’s a lot of media coverage about the latest... 		  University of California author
2018-01-30

  There are benefits to letting your mind wander.

It's a workday, just after lunch. You have a deadline and there's plenty of time left in the day to get the task done. If only you could stop thinking about other things. One thought can lead to your mind just...wandering away. This can't be good, righ... 		  University of California author
2018-01-24

  Are we close to curing glaucoma?

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, might be close to finding a drug that could cure glaucoma, which is the world’s second-leading cause of blindness. Karsten Gronert, a professor of optometry, says it has been a long process of tria... 		  University of California author
2018-01-18

  Cataloging the brain to make sense of functionality and cure disease

How does one make a brain atlas? John Ngai, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley explains. “You can think of it as a taxonomy. You might think about what are all the species of birds that there are on Earth, you might think of it... 		  University of California author
2018-01-12

  An over-the-counter drug that may help in the fight against MS

Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, affects over two million people worldwide. The neurodegenerative disease strikes when the immune system attacks myelin, layers of a fatty insulating membrane that surround nerve fibers and help send nerve signals faster. Ari ... 		  University of California author
2018-01-11

  How exposure to PBDEs affect a child's IQ

Exposure to flame retardant chemicals or PBDEs during pregnancy can affect children’s neurodevelopment. Environmental health scientist Tracey Woodruff of the University of California, San Francisco, found ten-fold increases in a mother's PBDE levels co... 		  University of California author
2018-01-10

  Mapping the great unknown of our brain

Believe it or not, neuroscience is still considered a relatively new field of medical research. That’s because there’s still a lot of the unknown about our brain. For instance, how do brain cells wire up and function? To answer this question, John Ngai... 		  University of California author
2018-01-09

  Could the progression of glaucoma be halted?

Glaucoma is the world’s second-leading cause of blindness, and it affects about 80 million people worldwide and has no cure. But vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered molecules that could probably halt the progres... 		  University of California author
2018-01-02

  The ambition Brain Atlas Project

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have started an ambitious project to build a brain atlas. According to neuroscientist John Ngai, the goal is to create a catalogue of different brain cells. "The human brain contains about 80 bill... 		  University of California author