The White House pause on federal grants is unprecedented and highly disruptive to the entire scientific community. The Administration has frozen previously approved and authorized funds, including reimbursements for funds already spent. These disruptive choices will impact students and trainees who rely on grants, funded investigators, and patients waiting for critical discoveries and treatments, in addition to having an economic impact for employees and employers at universities and organizations that are economic drivers in the U.S.

Abstracts are accepted for a two-week submission period in June. Late-breaking abstracts are not accepted.

For Brain Awareness Week 2018, scientists from the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies organized an interactive exhibit “Race Your Brain!” as a platform for the community to learn about how sensory information is used to control behavior. The main eve...

Abstracts are accepted for a two-week submission period in May–June.

Below are the challenges that have been put forward as part of the NeuroAdvocate Challenge to date. Many of these challenges can be carried out after the recommended month, unless noted otherwise.

Learning of adaptive behavior occurs after repeated experiences within a context. For example, after repeated visits to your local grocery stores, you might begin to learn that produce is only fresh in one of the stores. In this example, the context of ...

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Neuroscience studies on the social sharing of observed or imagined pain focused on whether empathic pain resonance is linked to affective or sensory nodes of the pain matrix. However, empathy, like other complex cognitive processes, is inherently linked to the activation of functional networks rather than of separate brain areas. Here, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to explore the relationship between empathy and functional coupling of neuronal activity in primary somatosensory (SI) and motor (MI) cortices. MEG recording was performed while healthy participants observed movie-clips depicting the static hand of a stranger model, the same hand deeply penetrated by a needle, or gently touched by a Q-tip. Subjects were asked to rate the movie-derived sensations attributed to self or to the model. For each type of clip observation, we analyzed spectral power and coherence values in α, β, and γ frequency bands. While spectral power indexes separate neural activity in SI and MI, coherence values index funct...