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11/19/2019

The BRAIN Initiative at Neuroscience 2019

By: The BRAIN Initiative Alliance

The recent conference for the Society for Neuroscience gave many BRAIN Initiative-funded researchers the chance to showcase their newly developed technologies that are helping to drive neuroscience forward

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12/05/2019

3D Neuroscience at the Speed of Life

By: NIH Director's Blog

BRAIN-funded scientist, Elizabeth Hillman has pioneered the pairing of a 3D live-imaging microscope with an ultra-fast camera, called Swept Confocally Aligned Planar Excitation (SCAPE) microscopy.

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12/04/2019

NIH Reissues Funding Opportunity Announcements for the BRAIN Advanced Postdoctoral Career

By: National Institutes of Health

The next application deadline for the BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) is February 10, 2020 (resubmission deadline is March 10, 2020).
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11/26/2019

NIH is Soliciting Comments on the Draft NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy

By: National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative investigators can now offer feedback on a new NIH-wide data sharing policy that will likely impact ongoing and future neuroscience research.
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11/22/2019

Ethical Challenges of Human Research with Neural Devices

By: National Institutes of Health

In a recent paper, a collaborative team of ethics and neuroscience experts highlight key ethical issues surrounding neural device research and provide points to consider for researchers and others.
News
11/21/2019

Charting the Course for the Next Phase of the NIH BRAIN Initiative

By: National Institutes of Health

There’s a lot to be excited about when it comes to the BRAIN Initiative...see what the NIH Institute and Center Directors of the BRAIN Initiative have to say about the next phase...
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11/01/2019

Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology BRAIN Project Wins a 2019 R&D 100 Award

By: R&D World

The BRAIN project, awarded to Oliver Rubel and Lydia Ng, for neurophysiology data standards, has been selected as a winner of a 2019 R&D 100 award in the Software/Services category. See link for full list.
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10/19/2019

U.S. initiative grapples with ethical questions on brain research

By: Spectrum

Khara Ramos, who directs the neuroethics program at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, described the emerging field of neuroethics at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.
In the Press
10/18/2019

NIH pairs cutting-edge neuroethics with ground-breaking neurotechnologies

By: NINDS

NIH BRAIN Initiative collaboration looking at clinical research considerations
Events
10/18/2019

Upcoming BRAIN Events at the 2019 Society for Neuroscience Conference

By: NIH

Please join us for exciting BRAIN-relevant events at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago, Illinois (October 19-23, 2019).
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10/18/2019

Scientists find mouse neurons that are unique to male or female brains

By: Allen Institute

A team of scientists who were trying to identify neurons that drive instinctive behaviors in mice uncovered something surprising on the way: brain cell types that exist only in female or male animals.