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The BRAIN Blog covers updates and announcements on BRAIN Initiative research, events, and news. 

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From the BRAIN Director: BRAIN in 2025—Seeking and Sustaining Innovation

Computer scientist Alan Kay famously said, “the best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Through a deliberate focus on technological innovation, the NIH BRAIN Initiative is doing just that. An exciting and productive decade of innovation facilitated by BRAIN Initiative research has changed neuroscience in ways we didn’t imagine—and to be honest, in ways we couldn’t have imagined 10 years ago when the initiative awarded its first grants in 2014. 

  • Neuroscience News

Groundbreaking findings revolutionizing traditional perspectives on Alzheimer’s Disease

Latest updates on the advancements and breakthroughs of the BRAIN Initiative in Alzheimer’s research. Brain mapping tools developed through the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network have enabled researchers to study how aging affects the brain as a whole.   

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

The BRAIN Initiative to support upcoming NIH-wide data sharing challenge

The NIH Data Sharing Index (S-Index) Challenge aims to promote data sharing and develop a robust metric to reward those who demonstrate exemplary data sharing. Mandatory registration to participate in the challenge is due by March 3, 2025, and the first phase of the challenge begins on April 21, 2025. 

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Bridging Brains and AI: The NIH BRAIN Initiative NeuroAI Workshop

NeuroAI research lies at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) and is poised to jumpstart a future that includes virtual neuroscience.

  • Neuroscience News

Researcher spotlight: F32 recipient Dr. Seth Koslov

Dr. Seth Koslov is a BRAIN F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study the functional anatomy correlated to executive functions and episodic memory retrieval in the human brain. The fellowship supports the research training of promising postdoctorates early in their postdoc training period.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding
  • Neuroscience News

Explore the 2024 BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest winners and 2025 BRAIN Initiative Calendar

This year’s recap article of the 2024 BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest covers the exciting neuroscience research showcased and commemorates 10 years of BRAIN Initiative science.

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

From the BRAIN Director: A Decade of Innovation - Year End Wrap-Up

The NIH BRAIN Initiative has revolutionized neuroscience since 2014, when we funded our first set of research projects. Only 10 years later, we now have a trove of new knowledge about cells and circuits, hundreds of open source neurotechnologies, and a new culture that embraces the power and creativity of team science.

BRAIN Initiative Alliance Toolmakers Newsletter – Fall 2024

Have you read the latest BRAIN Initiative Alliance newsletter? BRAIN scientists are invited to share their tools with the scientific community in the Toolmakers Newsletter. These newsletters spotlight BRAIN Initiative investigators with tools, technologies, or theories ready for distribution to the research community to advance neurotechnology.  

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

BRAIN at 10: A View from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The BRAIN Initiative is marking a milestone—10 years of advancing neuroscience and neurotechnology research by funding innovative projects. As part of a rotating series of blog posts, the directors of the BRAIN Initiative-partnering Institutes and Centers share their voice and perspectives on the impact BRAIN has made on their respective missions—and vice versa. 

By  Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 

  • Neuroscience News

August 2024 NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics and Multi-Council Working Group Meetings

In August, members of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative’s Neuroethics Working Group (NEWG) and Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) met to discuss ethical considerations related to artificial intelligence (AI) in neuroscience research, as well as updates from NEWG and MCWG members.

  • Neuroscience News