The meeting will convene BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from contributing federal agencies, plus representatives and investigators from participating non-federal organizations, and members of the media, public, and Congress.
BRAIN Blog
Behavioral modeling and optogenetics elucidate mechanisms of subjective, history-dependent decision bias… Advanced transgenic approach improves light-based study of neuronal circuit dynamics… Current state of computational methods in single-cell functional genomics… Sleep promotes…
January 16, 2018
Requests for Applications (RFAs) for the NIH BRAIN Initiative® continue to address critical components of the BRAIN 2025 Report, including novel tools to explore brain microconnectivity and non-neuronal cells, technology integration and dissemination, neuroethics, non-invasive human brain…
November 09, 2017
Enhancement of a new DNA-based bioimaging technique… Method allowing near-simultaneous imaging of several thousand neurons in awake behaving mice… Imaging method to overcome biological tissue refractive index inhomogeneity increases large-field-of-view imaging depth… Open-source software…
September 22, 2017
Ethical considerations in human intracranial electrophysiology research using neurosurgical patients
Intracranial electrical recordings and neuro-stimulation of neurosurgical patients have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of vision, speech, decision making, memory, and sensorimotor processing.
September 06, 2017
Method to overcome light scatter in optical imaging distinguishes moving objects with high fidelity… Novel analysis method improves accuracy of neural network models… Improved imaging technique reveals synaptic transmission at quantal resolution in fruit fly larvae
July 05, 2017
BRAIN Initiative team pushes the limits of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for human brain… A novel tool to manipulate gene function in specific cell types… Understanding the functional diversity of retinal bipolar cells…
June 20, 2017
Fabrication and testing of implanted magnetic microcoils to stimulate neurons… Optogenetic-induced seizure model to enhance understanding of interneuron roles… New optical technique to identify voltage activity patterns in specific cell types…
March 13, 2017
Recent meetings of the Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) for the NIH BRAIN Initiative and the MCWG Neuroethics Division provided updates on BRAIN’s scientific progress, considerations of the neuroethical issues surrounding the science, and discussions on how to continue working toward the…
March 08, 2017
In December, the NIH BRAIN Initiative held its third annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, gathering experts from around the…
February 20, 2017