BRAIN photo and video contest winners featured on the NIH Director’s Blog

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Neural recoding probe surrounded by colorful neurons.

Follow along this month as the NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins highlights the spectacular images and videos from this year’s Show Us Your BRAINs! Contest.

Recent technological advances fueled by the BRAIN Initiative have allowed scientists to visualize and study the brain like never before. Our annual Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo & Video Contest celebrates these research endeavors by showcasing the latest creative, eye-catching imagery of the brain. This year’s top picks were exceptionally beautiful – highlighting advances in cell type-specific imaging, brain mapping, and next-gen neural stimulation.

We invite you to tune in each Tuesday this month to the NIH Director’s Blog series The Amazing Brain for an in-depth look at the research teams and technologies behind these illustrations. Posts will feature webs of fluorescent cortical neurons, colorful 3D brainstem tractography, shiny green neurons scattered across a wonderfully intact mouse brain slice, and more.

Check out Dr. Collins’ most recent post on the story behind a 360-degree view of deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). 

2021 First Place Video Winner. "DBS Lead Placement for OCD"
Credit: Nicole Provenza, Raissa Mathura, Noam Peled, Evan Dastin-van Rijn, Kelly Bijanki, Sameer Sheth, David Borton, Wayne Goodman, Brown University and Baylor College of Medicine

And check in to the NIH Director’s Blog tomorrow for a post about the complex networks that connect the cells in the brain. Like works of art, these images are certainly a wonder to enjoy and highlight the incredible (and beautiful) potential of the BRAIN Initiative.

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