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08/06/2019

Call for Participation: Apply to be a Featured Toolmaker at the BIA SfN Social Event

By: National Institutes of Health

The BRAIN Initiative Alliance is seeking neurotechnology developers and engineers to feature at their satellite event during SfN – applications should be received online by August 26, 2019.

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08/19/2019

The BRAIN Initiative Alliance Boasts Numerous PECASE Award Recipients

By: BRAIN Initiative Alliance

This year’s PECASE (Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers) recipients include researchers and scientific administrators who are contributing to the BRAIN Initiative.
Events News
08/16/2019

Upcoming August Meetings for the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group and Multi-

By: National Institutes of Health

Videocast will be available for the open sessions of the upcoming NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group on Monday, August 19, 2019 and the Multi-Council Working Group on Tuesday, August 20, 2019.
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07/11/2019

New and Re-Issued Funding Opportunity Announcements for the NIH BRAIN Initiative

By: National Institutes of Health

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07/06/2019

Research into worms’ central nervous system could bring insight into mental health disor

By: The Washington Post

Scientists have created the most complete network ever of a central nervous system, a team of neurobiologists reported in the journal Nature.
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07/03/2019

The BRAIN Initiative: Changing Neuroscience

By: Society for Neuroscience

SfN describes how the BRAIN Initiative is one of the driving forces behind recent changes in the neuroscience landscape.

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07/02/2019

First-ever noninvasive mind-controlled robotic arm

By: Carnegie Mellon University

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon has made a breakthrough in the field of noninvasive robotic device control.
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07/02/2019

Two new RFAs seek to expand marmoset colonies and create a marmoset coordination center

By: National Institutes of Health

NIH announces two newly-issued Requests for Applications (RFAs): one seeks to expand existing marmoset colonies for neuroscience research; one aims to create a Marmoset Coordination Center.
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07/01/2019

New cloud-based tool accelerates research on conditions such as dementia, sports concussio

By: Indiana University

The web-computing platform was created by Indiana University scientists to support and publish reproducible neuroscience research.
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07/01/2019

BRAIN Initiative Funding is Advancing Theoretical & Computational Research

By: BRAIN Initiative Alliance

The BRAIN Initiative Alliance recently spoke to Professor Tatiana Engel, PhD, from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory about how BRAIN funding is helping advance computational neuroscience.

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06/25/2019

A model for how the brain stays in sync

By: Allen institute

In the brain, connections are key. A mouse brain contains around a billion synapses, or physical connections between neurons, and our own brains house approximately 100 trillion