This Project Grant award of $527,037 was provided by 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 supports research at New York University (NYU) to investigate how the basal ganglia and motor thalamus in the human brain integrate cognitive and motor processes, with the goal of developing brain stimulation strategies to treat movement and...
This Project Grant award, with ID F32NS140212, was provided by 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 $146,816 award supports research to simultaneously measure synaptic and spiking activity in corticospinal projection neurons in the primary motor cortex during the learning of a skilled motor task. The University of California, San Diego...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $599,204.00 and provided 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 investigate the cellular mechanisms that drive learning-induced myelin remodeling and its role in motor learning. The key objectives are to: (1) determine whether calcium signaling is required for myelin sheath shortening...
This federal Project Grant award of $673,581.00, awarded on April 17, 2025 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 by New York University (NYU) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying statistical learning, a fundamental cognitive process. The research aims to build a mechanistic neurobiological circuit theory of statistical...
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 of $738,566.00 was awarded on April 1, 2025 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. The grant supports research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California to define the circuit mechanisms that regulate somatosensory feedback in the brain. The research aims to determine if inhibitory mechanisms for...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $440,000.00 was provided 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. The grant supports research to develop novel analytical tools based on machine learning techniques, such as Cycle-GAN, to enable the "transfer" of neural decoders originally derived from monkey data to be used for intracortical...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded a $1,255,340 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on September 13, 2024. The grant will fund research to understand how the brain processes somatosensory (touch) feedback to enable skilled movement control. The key products or services to be delivered under this grant include simultaneous high-density neural recordings from the motor...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $481,049.00, was provided 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. The project, titled "Substantia Nigra Circuits in Instrumental Action," aims to characterize how the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNR) regulates divergent nigrostriatal dopamine pathways and determine the roles of specific...
This federal Project Grant award of $606,548 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) will support the development of a new "mesoscopic electrophysiology" recording system at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal is to create a 3-dimensional grid of 1,920 intracranial electrode contacts across an entire brain hemisphere to enable full-brain,...
The federal Project Grant award R01NS139424, valued at $650,878.00, was awarded on September 16, 2024 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. The grant supports research to understand the functional neuroanatomy of motor adaptation and skill learning processes, with a focus on the role of the posterior parietal cortex. Key products and services to be delivered include conducting studies using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, such as high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) and double pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), to examine hemisphere-specific effects on motor learning and transfer in humans. The research aims to elucidate the mechanisms underlying posterior parietal cortex's contributions to these fundamental motor learning processes. The project involves a collaboration between Penn State University and Northeastern University, with Northeastern University receiving a sub-award of $394,000 to support the collaborative research.