Mind & body

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How UC Berkeley is building a novel pipeline for music therapy

A partnership between by local donors and campus educators is bridging art and medical science, preparing a new generation of practitioners to heal through sound.

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Amid trend in health optimization, Berkeley scientists focus on optimizing the brain

Mind & body

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from ‘ghost’ ancestors

Humanities

Berkeley Talks: When we talk to AI, what are we talking to? - Audio

UC Berkeley and UCSF launch computational biomedicine initiative

Berkeley Talks: Philosopher Mark Johnston asks, ‘Is this our only life?’ - Audio

Inside the ‘concrete battery’: Berkeley researcher exposes lethal heat in Florida prisons

The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad

Berkeley Talks: Why kids need awe — and how puppets can help - Audio

A breakthrough in electron microscopy delivers sharper images of our body’s tiniest proteins

The number of uninsured Californians could nearly double by 2030, says new report

Tripping into old age: Can psychedelics protect the aging brain?

Science of Happiness: Finding common ground in uncomfortable times - Audio

Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it. - Video

For Black Americans, wealth offers scant protection from pregnancy risks, scholar finds

A neuroscientist describes your brain on psychedelics in 101 seconds - Video

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