The BRAIN Blog

This message can also be viewed as a Director’s Message from NINDS Director, Dr. Walter Koroshetz. 

This message can also be viewed as a Director’s Message from NIMH Director Dr. Joshua Gordon. 

Dear BRAIN Community,

The virtual conference, featuring multiple NIH BRAIN speakers and BRAIN-funded investigators, brings together the neuroscience community to discuss and present the newest advances in understanding the human brain, neuropsychiatric disorders, and behavioral processes as they relate to brain function.

New hippocampal circuitry of object-location memory identified…Functional connectivity patterns of thalamic nuclei mapped to better understand epilepsy…Two-photon and mesoscale imaging combined to examine local and global cortical networks…

Modern viral genetic-based brain mapping and imaging tools uncover a new cortico-hippocampal pathway

If you are developing or using a new neural device in humans, ready to register your device for clinical trials, or thinking about bringing your device to market, learn more about how to get feedback from the FDA on your device and clinical testing plans before starting the regulatory approval process.

Coordination of mouse facial behaviors through motor neurons … Untangling neural activity specific to mouse cognition … Novel analysis for understanding human structural connectomes and traits …

Facial Motor Cortex Neurons Orchestrate Mouse Behaviors Via Projections Extending into Trigeminal Premotor Nuclei

Videocast will be available for the open sessions of the upcoming NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group on Thursday, January 30, 2020 and the Multi-Council Working Group on Friday, January 31, 2020.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of John J. Ngai, Ph.D., as director of the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai is expected to join NIH in March.

To learn more, please read the full NIH news release.

Does your research involve bioethics? If so, you may want to consider the new bioethics funding supplements. These administrative supplements can support BRAIN-funded scientists conducting neuroethics research or those who seek to integrate bioethics into their projects. Applications are due on March 20, 2020.