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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists have discovered neurons in the mouse brain that help an animal learn to avoid negative experiences. The cells reside in a part of the brain involved in regulating the motivations that influence behavior.

Study finds human von Economa neurons' closest cellular cousins and captures first electrical recordings from these large spindle-shaped brain cells.

Since its launch in 2013, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative has doled out about $1.3 billion in grants to develop tools that map and manipulate the brain. Until now, it has operated with no formal director.

Society for Neuroscience

Did you miss out on the annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators meeting last month? Catch up here!

December 12, 2017
Your brain is one enigmatic hunk of meat—a wildly complex web of neurons numbering in the tens of billions. But years ago, when you were in the womb, it began as little more than a scattering of undifferentiated stem cells.

November 1, 2017
BRAIN scientists review the ten pilot projects of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium - the groundwork for creating a complete inventory of neuronal cell types and their connections.

October 23, 2017
$250 million effort will catalog “parts list” of our most complex organ.

October 23, 2017
$250 million effort will catalog “parts list” of our most complex organ.