The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $220,882 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA. The grant, awarded on June 27, 2024, will support research to investigate how social isolation affects the neural circuit mechanisms underlying tactile sensitivity and processing. The project aims to clarify the role of inhibitory...
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), part of the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853), provides $885,128 to Duke University to conduct research on the structure, function, and pharmacology of sensory receptor ion channels in somatosensory neurons. The research aims to gain a molecular-level understanding of the design principles governing somatosensation and nociception,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $1,255,340 to the University of California, Berkeley to investigate how the brain processes and integrates somatosensory feedback to enable dexterous movement control. The research aims to use high-density neural recordings and neuromodulation techniques in non-human primates to uncover how sensory and motor brain regions coordinate to support skilled movements....
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $273,254 Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program. The award will support a research project titled "CRCNS: THALAMOCORTICAL VS. RECURRENT CONNECTIVITY IN ACTIVE SENSATION OF VIBRISSA TOUCH - RELEVANCE" from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2028. The project...
This 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 $583,686.00 to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. The award supports the establishment of a new postdoctoral training program in "Quantitative Neuroscience Spanning Molecules, Cells, Circuits, and Behavior" over a 5-year period from July...
This federal Project Grant award of $915,281 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 supports research to elucidate the properties and functions of mechanosensory neurons in the skin, define the organization of subcortical touch circuitry, investigate the development of the somatosensory system, and determine the basis of aberrant touch reactivity in...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $242,310 Project Grant (CFDA 93.853 - Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to study the neural mechanisms underlying flexible escape behaviors in response to painful and mechanosensory stimuli. The research aims to investigate how different properties of mechanosensory input affect escape behaviors and to...
This 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 $312,001.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research on subcortico-cortical mechanisms of sensorimotor coordination, integration, and learning. The award period runs from May 15, 2024 to April 30, 2032. The NINDS Extramural Research Programs in the...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $638,718 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) to The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. This 5-year award, running from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, will fund research to develop selective, epineural stimulation of peripheral nerves using multi-contact cuff electrodes and multi-source, intermittent interferential current...