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Registration is live! Come join us to talk spatial memory, navigation, computation, and design at the next Conference for Research and Education in Navigation. Wonderful speakers+panelists, and we hope to see your work there too!

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Georgia Tech Neural Engineering Center YouTube video by Georgia Tech Neuro

Engineering thought is possible.

With the mission to synergize @gtresearch.bsky.social engineers and @emoryuniversity.bsky.social clinicians, the Neural Engineering Center is advancing technologies that interact in real time with the brain, body, and mind.

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When you research health, social factors are hard to ignore.

As a Medical Sociologist, @ivanallencollege.bsky.social's Jennifer Singh examines the structural forces shaping health and policy influencing illness.

More from Singh herself | 📖 neuro.gatech.edu/illness-more...

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When you think of robots, what comes to mind?

@gatechengineers.bsky.social professor W. Hong Yeo flips the script on robotics, envisioning a soft helping hand made up of muscles that think and materials that feel.

Read more | 📖 neuro.gatech.edu/georgia-tech...

Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow | Lights, Camera, Memory! | Annabelle Singer Can flickering light and sound help fight Alzheimer’s disease?  On this episode of Holy Shift!, host Angela Gill Nelms chats with Dr. Annabelle Singer from Georgia Tech and Emory University, whose ...

Can flickering light and sound help in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease?

#ICYMI, BME's Holy Shift! podcast with @drannabellesinger.bsky.social explores how her early interest in theater lighting led to groundbreaking research on brain rhythms and memory.

🎧: holyshiftresearch.transistor.fm/5

Congratulations to our CRaNE graduate Fellow @paulinamaxim.bsky.social for her new paper on hippocampal and prefrontal contributions to navigating shortcuts!

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Happy holidays from INNS! ❄️🧠

Our first semester brought new programs, community milestones, and big moments on the national stage. We’re grateful for everyone who helped shape this exciting beginning.

Here’s to rest, renewal, and an even brighter 2026.

10+ years of vision 👁️research in mice 🐭recasts our ideas about the brain 🧠and sharing data 🧪📈... a brief guide 👇 Thanks to many colleagues and @gtresearch.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social for connecting us w @us.theconversation.com

Attitude: Stories about inner strength — The Story Collider Paralyzed but undeterred, Scott Imbrie is on a mission to regain movement, and after an accident leaves them with severe burns on over a third of their body, Emily Hespeler works to find their way bac...

After a 1985 car accident left him an incomplete quadriplegic, Scott Imbrie joined brain-computer interface research — not for himself, but to help others.

Hear his story from our Wired Lives event on
@storycollider.bsky.social, out now: www.storycollider.org/stories/2025...

More than 100 Georgia Tech undergraduates conduct neuroscience research every year. They lend their perspective to nearly 70 labs across campus, which are often led by faculty in @gt-neuro.bsky.social. b.gatech.edu/3KhzgeB

🧠: Cellular-Level Tools, Standards, and Analyses
📄: The Ecosystem of Standards in Neuroscience: Which Ones Are For You?
📍: VV15
🐝: C. Rorden
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Functional Imaging of the Brain
📄: Mapping of spontaneous band-limited cortical network activity to hemodynamics
📍: DD8
🐝: S. D. Keilholz, L. Meyer-Baese
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Basal Ganglia: Physiology and Plasticity
📄: A ground truth dataset for electrophysiology-based cell type classification in the basal ganglia and midbrain
📍: U13
🐝: E. L. Dyer, V. Arora
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Peripheral Mechanisms: Mechanosensation and Proprioception
📄: Computing muscle state from proprioceptive signals during in situ work loops
📍: O14
🐝: T. C. Cope, L. H. Ting, P. Nardelli, J. D. Stephens
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Thalamic and Cortical Processing in Somatosensation
📄: Progression of abnormal signaling in primary somatosensory cortex of MitoPark mice
📍: N13
🐝: A. J. Emanuel, R. Zhang
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Neuroinflammation: Cell and Molecular Mechanisms
📄: Mitochondrially transcribed double-stranded RNA mediates manganese-induced neuroinflammation
📍: J5
🐝: L. Wood, F. Rivera Moctezuma
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Insights Into Brain Development and Sensory Processing
📄: Spatiotemporally dynamic control of beat-IIa expression by a steroid hormone pathway is critical for proper circuit formation in the fly visual system
📍: A51
🐝: S. Jain, J. Deora
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

The final round of #SfN25 presentations is already here! Check out the last #GTSfN25 rundown ⬇️🧵

View all #GTSfN25 presentations: public.tableau.com/views/Neuros...

#SfN25 @sfn.org

🧠: Methods to Modulate Neural Activity: Optogenetic
📄: Protein language-model guided opsin engineering yields unorthodox mutations with enhanced photocurrent properties
📍: XX8
🐝: C. R. Forest, A. VandeLoo
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Sensorimotor Transformation: Behavior and Whole Animal
📄: Transcutaneous Spinal Neuromodulation Combined with Task-Specific Training Restores Sensorimotor and Autonomic Function After 12 Years of Clinically Complete SCI
📍: S2
🐝: I. Montoya
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Adolescent Brain Development, Psychopathology, and Environmental Influences
📄: The role of genetic vulnerability and adversity in problematic adolescent behavior and neuronal development
📍: B19
🐝: D. Jensen
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Targeting Neuroinflammation to Improve Outcomes in Neurodegenerative Disease and Brain Injury
📄: Inhibition of p38 MAPK after repetitive mild TBI ameliorates immune signaling and behavioral deficits
📍: SDCC Rm 24A
🐝: C. Li
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

We're gearing up for the final day of #SfN25! Here is the #GTSfN25 rundown for Wednesday, November 19 starting at 8 a.m. ⬇️🧵

View all #GTSfN25 presentations: public.tableau.com/views/Neuros...

#SfN25 @sfn.org

🧠: Optical Methodology: Application
📄: Automated Quantification of Morphology in HEK Cells, N2A Cells and CD1 E15 Mouse Primary Neurons
📍: WW12
🐝: A. D. VandeLoo
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Human Navigation
📄: Environment cues and geometry interact in shaping cognitive maps
📍: SS12
🐝: J. Long
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Human Navigation
📄: Navigating Invisible Walls: The Stability and Context-Dependence of Grid-Like Signals in the Human Entorhinal and Perirhinal Cortices During Multi-Band fMRI
📍: SS10
🐝: O. Zeid
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Human Navigation
📄: Triple Dissociation of Information Processing in Dorsal Striatum, Ventral Striatum, and Hippocampus for Overlapping Spatial Memories During Route Learning
📍: SS6
🐝: T. I. Brown
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Circuit Regulation of Reward-Related Behavior
📄: Intracranial Signatures of Effort Based Decision Making
📍: GG5
🐝: V. Anand
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

🧠: Rhythmic Pattern Generation Mammals and Models
📄: The muscle spindle behaves as a tunable feedback controller during perturbed locomotion
📍: X15
🐝: L. H. Ting, T. C. Cope, G. S. Sawicki, S. Simha
🔗: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...