BRAIN Blog

Research in Drosophila reveals context-dependent visual responses in a brain region thought to be involved in navigation during flight

January 14, 2021

Improving two-color calcium imaging… Surprising evolutionary changes in interneuron types… Exploring how the basal ganglia multitasks behavior… Using mathematical models to study bat echolocation…

December 09, 2020

Power-efficient hardware and brain-computer interfaces… Understanding the timescales of neural dynamics… Examining gut-to-brain progression of α-synuclein pathology in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease… The neural origins of magneto- and electro-encephalography…

November 05, 2020

Taking the subjectivity out of pain measurement… Using holographic manipulations to understand optogenetic thresholds… Neurons to networks…Studying how parents perceive autism in their at-risk children…

September 30, 2020

Unraveling neural contributors to position tracking errors in aging humans… A switch to shut off pain… Inducing torpor in mice in order to understand hibernation states… A novel and noninvasive improvement for optogenetics…

August 12, 2020

Novel neural network translates cortical activity to text… Low-carb diet may prevent and reverse brain aging… Transcriptomic characterization of rare von Economo neurons… Deep learning model predicts Parkinson’s symptomology...

July 07, 2020
Wireless control of stress hormone secretion in rats … Cortical organizational mechanisms underlie brain-computer interface learning … Dynamic advances in noninvasive imaging technology aided by machine learning … Amputees control prosthetic limbs with a new regenerative peripheral nerve interface …
June 26, 2020

The ethics of highly portable, cloud-based neuroimaging … Newly observed cycling neural activity pattern in the hippocampus encodes consideration of future scenarios … Kilohertz two-photon imaging of voltage dynamics in mice … Neural interface for long-lasting, high-definition recording…

April 17, 2020

New simulation framework for transcranial focused ultrasound… Novel voltage imaging in awake, behaving mice… Cortical dynamics impact perceptual decision making… Internal states shape behavioral decisions…

April 07, 2020

New hippocampal circuitry of object-location memory identified…Functional connectivity patterns of thalamic nuclei mapped to better understand epilepsy…Two-photon and mesoscale imaging combined to examine local and global cortical networks…

February 27, 2020