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12/16/2021

Save the Date for the 8th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting: Open Science, New Tools

By: National Institutes of Health

Your attendance at this open meeting June 21-22, 2022 will help us continue to build the BRAIN community and provide a forum for discussing exciting scientific developments and potential new directions...

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01/19/2022

Study highlights connections between addictive drugs and brain function in mice

By: Science Daily

Researchers used high-resolution technologies to see how dopamine circuitry in mice is affected by addictive drugs. The results answered older structural questions, while raising new ones about plasticity

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01/19/2022

Window of Opportunity: When surgery to treat neurological conditions lets researchers peer

By: Science

In 2019, Kate Folladori spent a month sitting in a hospital room hoping she’d have a seizure
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01/14/2022

Memory is a big part of the sense of touch

By: Boston University

New research sheds light on how the brain combines external information and internal memory to build a sense of touch.
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01/14/2022

UCI-led team first to discover new neural circuits that regulate spatial learning and memo

By: UCI

Understanding of novel functional roles can advance research in Alzheimer’s disease, other learning and memory disorders
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01/07/2022

NIH BRAIN Initiative Director outlines new era of transformative projects in Cell commenta

By: National Institutes of Health

NIH BRAIN Initiative Director, Dr. John Ngai, provides a Leading Edge overview of three ambitious “BRAIN 2.0 transformative projects”
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01/03/2022

Upcoming webinar on funding opportunity to support resource dissemination and integration

By: National Institutes of Health

The NIH BRAIN Initiative is hosting an informational webinar to discuss the aims and features of the Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination (RFA-NS-22-011).

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12/27/2021

Seven Caltech Faculty are Principal Investigators on NIH BRAIN Grants

By: Caltech

Seven Caltech researchers are principal investigators on eight new neuroscience grants from the National Institutes of Health's BRAIN Initiative.

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12/23/2021

Reaching Across the Aisle to Find the Algorithms of Vision

By: Simons Foundation

Two styles of understanding visual processing — discriminative and generative approaches — have guided researchers on separate paths for decades but are now being brought together.
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12/22/2021

Funding Opportunity Announcements for 2022: Courses for Skills Development

By: National Institutes of Health

Today’s post highlights a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that supports short courses for skills development that will significantly advance the educational goals of the BRAIN Initiative.
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12/21/2021

‘The Art of the BRAIN’ series

By: National Institutes of Health

In a series of five articles, we highlight the top artwork from the 2020 and 2021 Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video Contest and the scientific tools used to uncover the beauty of the brain.