Announcing this awesome paper by Jasmine Mirdamadi with NPRL! Individual differences in cortical beta power are associated with whole-body functional motion perception, whereas modulation of evoked cortical responses relate to balance ability. jneurosci.org/content/44/15/…

Great panel on muscle spindles and their modulation in movement! Thanks to Surabhi for organizing and the complementary works by Surabhi Simha Alessandro Santuz Michael Dmitriou with discussion help from David Franklin NCM society

My lab's Slack workspace down and now we have to actually talk to each other. Slack

Incredibly sad news for the Emory Neuroscience community

What are the hottest and most important topics in DBS, neurotechnology and neuromodulation? The speakers and topics for each year's DBS Think Tank are chosen based on your submissions. The meeting will be August 21-23, 2024. We encourage everyone to make suggestions! Link below

Extremely proud to announce that our paper on spinal cord stimulation to restore sensation in people with lower-limb amputation is out in Nature Biomedical Engineering! RNEL
Ameya Nanivadekar Rohit Bose
Bailey Petersen University of Pittsburgh UPMC PM&R Pitt Bioengineering NeuroMechatronics Lab nature.com/articles/s4155…

An NIH advisory group announced today that they're recommending the agency boost its minimum #postdoc salary to $70,000, up from the current $56,484. Many postdocs feel 'underpaid and overworked,' a co-chair said.

My latest for ScienceInsider:
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Our latest in Curr Bio. We use a VAE to visualize parakeet vocal signatures and identify mechanistic similarities and differences in songbird vs parrot song systems - congrats Zhilei Zhao and team with Han Keng Teoh from The Cohen Lab. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iDg13QW8S2S…

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If you're a current Ph.D. student in neural engineering, systems/computational neuroscience, or related field: Meta Reality Labs has internship openings on their neuromotor interfaces team metacareers.com/jobs/142377305…

Daniela Schiller in NYT: “The brain doesn’t look like it’s in a state of memory; it looks like it is a state of present experience.”
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our new framework describing how fear of falling turns maladaptive (from protective) is finally out in Age_and_Ageing. Final paper from my Fellowship with Will Young and mark wilson (and Elmar Kal). Probably the one I am most proud of. academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Yes, and conversely if you're studying movement you'll need to understand how memory, sensory processing, cognition, and emotion affect how we adapt our movements.
Oh and seriously Mackenzie has it only been 6 years since your PhD to you ruling the field now?

1/N Excited to share the lab’s first preprint on neural population dynamics in motor cortex and spinal motoneurons during locomotion! This project was led by Eric Kirk, an outstanding postdoc in the lab. Thread …
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Really great work!

At SfN for the first time? Here's some tips. YMMV.
- stay at your poster the whole 4h
- introduce yourself to people
- talk into the microphone
- go visit the vendors
- go see plenary lectures
- don't limit yourself to your subfield

Don't miss our minisymposium Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Monday at 2pm. Seungwon (Sebastian) Choi 최승원 Anda Chirila Tayler Sheahan Manon Bohic @syscaru and myself will discuss sensory processing in the dorsal horn.

Excited for #SfN2023 ! If you’re interested in proprioception and reflexive movement control, come see my poster “Differential force encoding between primary and secondary muscle spindle afferents” at session 418 on Tuesday! Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting

Sorry I had to cancel my trip to SfN, but please go visit our posters and introduce yourselves to Kennedy Kerr (looking at grad school), and Jacob Stephens and Surabhi Simha of our muscle spindle modeling team!

If you're at #SfN2023 come by our poster with Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting to learn about how we can sculpt our muscle spindle outputs using gamma motor drive depending on what we care about in a task. Poster number PSTR418.05 on Tuesday afternoon