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06/05/2020

Advancing Scientific and Workforce Diversity in the NIH BRAIN Initiative – Inviting Your

By: National Institutes of Health

NIH seeks input on enhancing scientific and workforce diversity through the BRAIN Initiative. Public comments will be accepted through this Request for Information (RFI) through July 15, 2020.

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06/29/2020

Deciphering the Secrets of Attention

By: Simons Foundation

By studying neural activity, Marlene Cohen has found that attention alters how neurons carry information.

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06/25/2020

For Black Scientists, the Sorrow Is Also Personal

By: Cell

BRAIN Initiative scientist, Kafui Dzirasa, provides a heart-felt commentary: "I have tried to live in a world that does not see color but have only succeeded in living in a world that does not see me."
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06/24/2020

Illuminating the Dark Parameter Space of Neuroscience Modeling

By: Simons Foundation

Model builders once had to fumble in the dark to find the parameters that made their models work. Software called SNPE and EPI now enables the full parameter landscape to be seen from the start.
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06/22/2020

New tools will enhance the specificity of imaging in the mouse brain

By: Buck Institute

Researchers at the Buck Institute, in a team effort with collaborators at the University of California, San Francisco, have developed tools that make it easier to ask that big question by making the imagin
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06/19/2020

Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip for Portable

By: MIT

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors
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06/19/2020

Autism linked to sleep problems and brain changes in infancy

By: University of Washington

Children with autism are more likely than typical children to have had problems falling asleep as infants, according to a new study
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06/18/2020

2020 FNIH Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences Winner Pioneered Innovative Techniques to She

By: Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

BRAIN-funded investigator Aviv Regev, Ph.D. is the winner of the 2020 FNIH Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for laying the groundwork for the field of single-cell genomics...
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06/18/2020

Scientists Found a Way to Make Brain Tissue Indestructible

By: MIT

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists have developed a new technique that can transform tissue samples into flexible surfaces
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06/18/2020

Researchers Make Mice Smell Odors that Aren’t Really There

By: NYU

Using optogenetics, scientists have simulated the sense of smell directly within the mouse brain to investigate the nature of olfactory perception.
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06/16/2020

Hunting in savanna-like landscapes may have poured jet fuel on brain evolution

By: Northwestern University

Rife with obstacles and occlusions, terrestrial environments potentially helped give rise to planning circuits in the brain