This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, supports research to characterize the relationship between motor cortex neural activity and voluntary movement. The $636,448 award, with a period of performance from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029, will leverage large-scale neural recordings and motor unit recordings to investigate...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $940,216 project grant (CFDA 93.853 - Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders) to the University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct research on the molecular mechanisms that regulate the transition from variable to stable motor skill performance. The objective is to leverage the birdsong neural circuit model to define how changes in neuronal epigenetic state, transcription...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program, will fund research to investigate the fundamental neural signals underlying motor learning in both upper-limb movements and speech adaptation. The total funding amount is $440,610 over the 5-year project period from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029. The research aims to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $1,255,340.00 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research on understanding how the brain processes sensory feedback and integrates it with motor control to enable dexterous movement. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to leverage simultaneous neural recordings from multiple...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $364,848 to the University of Colorado-Denver to investigate the computational logic used by the cerebellar cortex to enable precise, goal-directed reaching movements. The research, titled "Spatiotemporal Encoding of Goal-Directed Reaching Across Early Cerebellar...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded a $4,528,840 Project Grant to The Salk Institute For Biological Studies under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The three-year award beginning August 19, 2022 will fund research to functionally dissect cerebellar output circuits that orchestrate limb motor control. Specifically, the grantee will...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $466,125.00 to New York University School of Medicine to conduct research on the neural substrates underlying the long-duration response in Parkinson's disease. The project aims to uncover the mechanisms by which repeated stimulation of certain neurons in the globus...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $252,666 to support research on the role of functional modularity in the neural code underlying contextual behavior. The project aims to determine when and why modular versus unstructured neural representations emerge to support contextual behavior, how these...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, will support research on the mechanisms of learning-induced synaptic plasticity in corticospinal output neurons of the motor cortex. The $146,816 award, made on June 26, 2025, will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to simultaneously measure synaptic and...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $650,878 and awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) grant program, supports research to understand the functional neuroanatomy of two fundamental components of motor learning: motor adaptation and skill learning. The primary awardee, The Pennsylvania State University, will utilize non-invasive brain stimulation...