New paper: Spinal circuitry modeled for locomotion using spatial transcriptomics and cell-type projections. Local excitation, long-range inhibition, and a longitudinal skew—an asymmetric "Mexican hat"—give rhythm, rotational dynamics, and gait, with no pacemakers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What does the spinal cord actually do? Most textbooks draw the spinal cord as a relay station- but it is much more than that. The spinal cord is not a cable — it's a computer. The human spinal cord contains 1 billion neurons that generate almost all bodily movements. Cortex has about 16 billion.

Sayre's law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." Via @serge.belongie.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%2...

The exciting time of the year, when the Brain Prize winners are announced, is coming up soon! The announcement of The Brain Prize 2026 will take place on 5th March at 4pm CET on our website brainprize.org The world’s largest neuroscience research prize is awarded yearly by the Lundbeck Foundation.

Rune W. Berg (@runewberg.bsky.social) has now been formally accepted into the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (danaak.dk). Congrats! @runewberg.bsky.social

Neurograd 2026 Prize ceremony for the winners of top 3 best talks: 1) Yasemin Ronahi Kucuk 2) Alberte W. Jurgensen Breum 3) Marc Klee Olsen. Congrats! And the best poster presentations: 1) Jamila Probst S. H. Lilja, 2) Lara Kristin Sach, 3) Samuel Ovrom- Congrats! Key note by Svend Brinkmann

NeuroGrads' yearly winter school 2026 kicks off on the second day

Alzheimers? Here's a solution if you're a mouse. 😅 ...and potentially if you're a human. 🤞 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Pharmacologic reversal of advanced Alzheimer’s disease in mice and identification of potential therapeutic nodes in human brain

Chaubey et al. demonstrate that restoration of brain resilience reverses advanced disease in two different mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), challenging the century-long dogma of AD irreversib...

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New preprint: Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...