1/5 NEW in NEURON! We asked what forelimb M1 contributes to striatal and behavioral dynamics. Short answer: almost everything*. Mark A Nicholas trained mice to perform a joystick reaching task, w/ and w/out a go cue, then lesioned CFA tinyurl.com/M1Lesions @cmuneurosci CMU Mellon College of Science

As scientists, we go to conferences but don’t connect with the local community at all. Thanks to JSDavis, #BlackInNeuro will be hosting a Brain Carnival during SfN at a local Chicago church for the community to meet Black scientists, play games & learn about the brain 🧠✨

Hello all! Please give this a read - and amplify! #SimCo2024 #ThankAMonkey #EndSufferingThruScience

When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide an explanation: Exceptionally high stakes interfere with motor preparation. We can see this in motor cortex. Next up: finding out why. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Out now! Byron Yu, ShenghaoWu, Matt Smith, Brent Doiron, Chengcheng Huang et al. present a procedure to customize spiking network models that reproduce the population-wide covariability of large-scale neuronal recordings. nature.com/articles/s4358… ➡️rdcu.be/dT5i9

Monkey study reveals science behind 'choking under pressure' trib.al/kL3xmuz

If you ever need a good cry come back to this video. Excited to show this to my students tomorrow in our lecture about motor cortex.

What hides in the complex responses of prefrontal cortex neurons? How does this fascinating brain area implement advanced cognitive functions? Find this out in our manuscript, now published in #ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… [1/14]

Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with Andrew Pruszynski – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/

Using a brain–computer interface to challenge monkeys to override their natural time courses of neural activity reveals that the time courses are highly robust, suggestive of network-level computational mechanisms Aaron Batista Byron Yu Alan Degenhart @ErinnGrigsb

It's clear that many do not understand what NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on

I am no conspiracy theorist, but it really feels like they are trying to destroy our country from within. Health care, public schools, universities, research, law firms, federal workers, the environment are all getting the axe. What was it again that it made America great?

60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.” Moral bankruptcy cbsnews.com/news/what-reco…

So if you’re a computer vision PhD and you get a speeding ticket, you can get deported. Got it, OK.

This is why we do what we do: show what's possible at the medical frontier through academic pilot trials in order to de-risk the industry then refining and scaling these discoveries to reach patients!

This will not make America great. This will in the long run hurt American tech leadership. 50% of the NSF budget is about $4.5B - this is a rounding error in the proposed *increases* to ICE and defense which are > $100B

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15