BRAIN Initiative researchers appear to have shown how the brain creates two different kinds of thirst.
BRAIN-funded scientists Drs. Jerold Chun, Duygu Kuzum, and Christopher D. Harvey were recipients of 2020 NIH Director’s Awards that will support their original and innovative research.
In mice and one person, scientists were able to reproduce the altered state often associated with ketamine by inducing certain brain cells to fire together in a slow, rhythmic fashion.
Researchers develop a wider spectrum for dLight1 sensor, allowing multiplex imaging of neurotransmitters.
Recently, members of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) and Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) discussed racial inequities in neuroscience and biomedicine, COVID-19 impacts on resear
Many people believe that the future lies in open science. Open science broadly refers to efforts to make scientific research accessible to all levels of society, from amateurs to professionals.
This funding opportunity announcement supports the development of technologies, production efforts, and dissemination resources for a cell type-specific armamentarium to study brain function across species
Perception is limited by the information that the brain can extract from the noisy dynamics of sensory neurons.
Major NIH award to study how the brain infers structure from sensory signals may have applications for disorders like schizophrenia and offer insights for artificial intelligence.
The tools of bioluminescent optogenetics, or BL-OG, promise to remake the enterprise of scientific discovery
