This funding opportunity supports the development or application of innovative tools and approaches to advance our understanding of behavior as a complex dynamic system.
The Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) program aims to develop new tools and approaches to advance a more comprehensive mechanistic understanding of the neural basis of behavior.
RFA-DA-24-040 BRAIN Initiative: Brain-Behavior Quantification and Synchronization—Transformative and Integrative Models of Behavior at the Organismal Level (U01 Clinical Trial Optional). This funding opportunity is intended for applications proposing research involving humans or use of human subjects’ data.
RFA-DA-24-041 BRAIN Initiative: Brain-Behavior Quantification and Synchronization—Transformative and Integrative Models of Behavior at the Organismal Level (U01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed). This funding opportunity is intended for applications using non-human animal models.
These companion funding opportunities are soliciting proposals for innovative transdisciplinary team science to:
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Develop, validate, and apply cutting-edge tools and methods for minimally invasive, multi-dimensional, high-resolution objective measurement of behavior at the organismal level, with synchronous capture of dynamic environments.
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Develop advanced analytic approaches to integrate multidimensional behavioral, neural, and environmental data.
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Develop and test new theoretical and computational models aiming to advance understanding of behavior as a complex dynamic system.
Proposed projects are expected to be designed with the capacity to integrate synchronously recorded neural data and/or inform existing models of neurobehavioral function, such as those developed with the support of the NIH BRAIN Initiative.
The next application due date is October 9, 2024.
As part of the NIH BRAIN Initiative’s efforts to promote more impactful science through the inclusion of diverse perspectives, many of these funding opportunities will require a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives as part of the application. Please visit the BRAIN Initiative’s funding opportunities webpage for more details on these and any additional opportunities that may arise.
Applicants are encouraged to contact BRAIN BBQS or Holly Moore, PhD.