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The #BioRobotics Institute at SantAnnaPisa is looking for a new full professor in #biomedical engineering, #bionics,#robotics for #surgery and #rehabilitation, #soft robotics, #neuroengineering, and more. More information here santannapisa.it/it/selezioni/c… Please RT and DM for info.

Excited to announce “A neural basis of choking under pressure” is up on biorxiv, where we look at motor cortical population correlates of reward-mediated performance in primates. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Summary in thread below (1/11)

New paper out this week in nature ! nature.com/articles/s4158… Many thanks to the co-authors for making this happen, especially co-senior / best friend Juan Álvaro Gallego , and co-leads Mostafa Safaie + Joanna Chang ! I also want to say a word about the translational implications 👇

Are you at #SfN23 and interested the neural activity behind feedback-driven arm movement? Stop by my poster on Tuesday morning (FF23, 8am-12pm) to see how it compares with activity during feedforward dominated movements!

How do people with motor paralysis regain movement using spinal cord stimulation (SCS)? Genis and I studied the mechanisms that enable voluntary motor control during SCS after paralysis medrxiv.org/content/10.110… #scs ‼️Spoiler‼️: SCS does NOT facilitate supraspinal inputs…

We are looking for a PhD student to join our group Department of Fundamental Neurosciences to study the neuronal circuits in the spinal cord in sensorimotor disorders. Apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%…

Since the lead author (Patrick Marino) is too cool for social media, it falls on me to tweeprint about our new article “A posture subspace in primary motor cortex”, which just dropped on biorxiv yesterday! (1/9) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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…

Yeeeah ! The team just got the paper out: nature.com/articles/d4158… Why do we underperform in high stake scenario? Very nice work from Adam Aaron Batista and co

Excited to see our work on motor thalamus #dbs for upper-limb motor deficits after cerebral lesions published today: #neurotechnology #womeninstem nature.com/articles/s4146…

Here we study human cortical control of gait with non invasive cortical stimulation and find very similar patterns of gait modulation as we previously showed in animals. By Heloise Bourgeois, collab with Dorothy Barthelemy's lab and Marina Martinez biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Excited to share our latest work in Nature Communications: “Wearable non-invasive neuroprosthesis for targeted sensory restoration in neuropathy”! 🎉 nature.com/articles/s4146… We developed a wearable neuroprothesis to restore lost sensations, improve gait, and reduce pain. 🧠⚡

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Is our brain infinitely flexible or constrained? Oby & colleagues cleverly uses BCIs to test what cortical activity can/can't be generated quickly. Highly recommend! nature.com/articles/s4159… And you can get a tl;dr + my takes on why this is exciting here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

🧠 How does neural activity behave in the brain? Pitt (Aaron Batista) and CMU researchers used brain-computer interfaces to find that neural activity follows rigid, predefined paths, much like a roller coaster. news.engineering.pitt.edu/neural-populat…

We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods and #Drosophila- please RT

My open-source SWC Neuron Editor now features a species-organized list of neurons, including human examples from NeuroMorpho.Org. + UI enhancements for easier exploration. Want your neuron skeletons featured? Comment below or DM me #neuroscience #OpenScience #NeuronMorphology