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Upcoming Virtual Meetings: The May NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group Meeting and the 2020 BRAIN Initiative® Investigators Meeting

Please join us for two upcoming virtual meetings: The Multi-Council Working Group meeting on May 22, 2020, and the sixth annual BRAIN Initiative® Investigators meeting on June 1-2, 2020.

We hope that everyone remains safe and healthy during the evolving coronavirus public health crisis. As you may know, many of our upcoming meetings will now be held virtually.

Multi-Council Working Group meeting – Friday, May 22, 2020

  • Neuroscience News

COVID-19 Funding and Funding Opportunities

NIH is devoting significant resources to COVID-19, including funding opportunities through Notices of Special Interest (NOSI) in which BRAIN grantees may be interested

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

BRAIN Publication Roundup – Late April 2020

The ethics of highly portable, cloud-based neuroimaging … Newly observed cycling neural activity pattern in the hippocampus encodes consideration of future scenarios … Kilohertz two-photon imaging of voltage dynamics in mice … Neural interface for long-lasting, high-definition recording across species … New BRAIN tool helps researchers watch neural activity in 3D …

Ethical challenges of field research using portable, cloud-based neuroimaging

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

NIH Reissues Notice of Funding Opportunity for Exploratory Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs (RFA-NS-20-029)

The next application deadline for the BRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs – eTeamBCP (U01 Clinical Trials Optional) is July 14, 2020.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

2020 BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting: Show Us Your Brains! Video and Photo Contest is Now Open

Dear BRAIN Community,

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BRAIN Publication Roundup – April 2020

New simulation framework for transcranial focused ultrasound… Novel voltage imaging in awake, behaving mice… Cortical dynamics impact perceptual decision making… Internal states shape behavioral decisions…

Rapid Simulation Framework Predicts Focal Spot Characteristics For Transcranial Focused Ultrasound

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

2020 BRAIN Initiative Investigators VIRTUAL Meeting

Dear BRAIN Community,

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2020 BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting Update

Dear BRAIN Community,

  • Neuroscience News

The NIH BRAIN Initiative at LabRoots’ 8th Annual Neuroscience Virtual Conference on March 11, 2020

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.

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BRAIN Publication Roundup – February 2020

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

  • Neuroscience News
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology