The BRAIN Blog

The National Academy of Sciences recently elected new members Drs. Elizabeth Buffalo, Hollis Cline, Stephen Lisberger, Helen Mayberg, and Jay Shendure for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.  

Help us select the winners for this year’s contest by casting your vote through June 13!  

The BRAIN Initiative’s yearly meeting is making a change from a hybrid to all-virtual format.  

A pre-recorded webinar and slide set are available for applicants interested in learning more about the BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS) Program.

NINDS is inviting researchers to provide comments and advice on gaps and opportunities for research in fundamental neuroscience. 

The next virtual NIH BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group meeting will be held on Monday, May 16, 2021. Please joins us for the open meeting session available on videocast.  

SPIE journal Neurophotonics has published the first of two extensive status reports on tools for brain science.

BRAIN-supported technology development holds promise for clinical applications.

Post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Justin O’Hare, and colleagues publish landmark paper in Science, finding for the first time that intracellular calcium release plays a key role in how the brain adapts to new environments. 

As a tourist, you might need directions to go from a hotel to a restaurant, but spend a few days in that town, and the task of navigating from the hotel to the restaurant becomes trivial. How our brains learn, remember, and navigate new environments has been an enduring mystery in neuroscience.