CMU Neuroscience Institute
@cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social
The Neuroscience Institute was launched to bring together faculty and students from across the University to conduct multi-disciplinary work to advance the state of brain science.
Timothy Behrens, a leading figure in computational neuroscience at the University of Oxford, has been named the latest recipient of the Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences. ni.pantheon.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Oxford Professor Named Winner of Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences
ni.pantheon.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon #research offers new insight into how DNA arrangement may contribute to Alzheimer's disease. To gain a large-scale perspective of the disease, the team created an #AI model that combines DNA sequence with genome folding information.
CMU Researchers Use AI To Explore How Alzheimer’s Changes Brain Cells
New research from a CMU-led team offers new insight into how changes in the arrangement of DNA may contribute to Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia.
cmu.edu
CMU Neuroscience Institute at CCN 2026! 🧠✨ We’re excited to highlight the incredible lineup of research from CMU/NI faculty this year across talks and posters. 🔗Full sponsors list: 2026.ccneuro.org/sponsors/ 🧵👇
CMU is hiring in NeuroAI! Come join our amazing community at the interface between neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Apply at this link for the assistant professor position. apply.interfolio.com/189268
Deadline extended! The Neuroscience Institute of Carnegie Mellon University seeks diverse, creative, and collaborative early-career applicants for its Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The application deadline is now May 15, 2026. www.cmu.edu/ni/distingui...
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The Neuroscience Institute (NI) of Carnegie Mellon University seeks diverse, creative, and collaborative early-career applicants for its Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
cmu.edu
With millions of dollars on the line and just minutes to make a final decision on each pick, a single choice can shape a franchise for years. CMU experts said those intense moments offer a window into how people make decisions when the stakes are highest. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Inside the High-Stakes Decisions of the NFL Draft
Inside the High-Stakes Decisions of the NFL Draft
cmu.edu
Ten finalists will compete in the 2026 3MT Championship at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, in the Cohon University Center’s McConomy Auditorium. A livestream will also be available. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Big Ideas in Three Minutes
CMU Doctoral Students Share Research Shaping the Future
cmu.edu
I’m happy to share that one of my PhD works, Neuronal heterogeneity of normalization strength in a circuit model, is published in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). 🧵1/n
Neuronal heterogeneity of normalization strength in a circuit model
Diverse inhibitory currents generate heterogeneous normalization that enhances visual stimulus encoding.
science.org
A new study from Biomedical Engineering’s Bin He shows ultrasound can subtly prepare the brain to respond, rather than directly triggering activity. Combined with light electrical stimulation, it produces stronger, targeted effects for future therapies. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
New stimulation method builds on focused ultrasound research
A new study from Biomedical Engineering’s Bin He shows ultrasound can subtly prepare the brain to respond, rather than directly triggering activity. Combined with light electrical stimulation, it prod...
cmu.edu
New research from the Wood Neuro Research Group suggests sickle cell disease changes how the brain’s networks work together, with the brain calling on extra support from attention systems to keep thinking and decision-making on track. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
New study shows how sickle cell affects brain function
New research from the Wood Neuro Research Group suggests sickle cell disease changes how the brain’s networks work together, with the brain calling on extra support from attention systems to keep thin...
cmu.edu
If you're attending @cosynemeeting.bsky.social, come check out our NeuroAgents workshop on Tuesday March 17! Speakers: Omri Barak, Cristina Savin, @lilweb.bsky.social @reecedkeller.bsky.social Caroline Haimerl, Hannah Choi @xaqlab.bsky.social Srini Turaga, Yanan Sui, @trackingskills.bsky.social 👇
Satpreet (Sat) Singh@satpreetsingh.bsky.social · 6mo ago📣 Excited to announce the 2nd edition of our workshop “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Theory, Autonomy, Embodiment & Environment” at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2026!! 🧠🤖🌍🪰🐟🐭💪🧘🏃 🗓️ March 17, 2026 📍 Cascais, Portugal 🔗 Speaker lineup and schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io
“I want to study how the brain takes knowledge about some topic then applies it to solve a totally new problem...” tinyurl.com/ynvyv685
Saurabh Vyas Thinks Through Neuroscience Research
Saurabh Vyas Thinks Through Neuroscience Research
tinyurl.com
By using advanced machine learning, researchers have created compact, yet highly accurate models to better understand the visual system, offering potential breakthroughs for both neuroscience and artificial intelligence. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Small models, big insights into vision
By using advanced machine learning, researchers have created compact, yet highly accurate models to better understand the visual system, offering potential breakthroughs for both neuroscience and arti...
cmu.edu
In a leap for personalized medicine, CMU scientists have discovered a simple and valuable way to improve brain cancer surgeries. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Neurosurgeons Are Really Good at Removing Brain Tumors, and They’re About to Get Even Better
In a leap for personalized medicine, CMU scientists have discovered a simple and valuable way to improve brain cancer surgeries.
cmu.edu
"Across neuroscience, biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Neuroscience Institute are exploring how pain is measured, understood and treated to support safer, more effective care." www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Rethink Chronic Pain
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Rethink Chronic Pain
cmu.edu
"Research from Carnegie Mellon University helps explain why that split-second pause happens and how the brain controls it, offering insight not only into elite athletic performance, but also how people make everyday decisions when the outcome isn’t clear." www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Frozen on the Ice: The Brain Science Behind Perfect Olympic Timing
Research examines the split-second between action and hesitation
cmu.edu
Clinicians rely on fetal heart rate to assess distress during labor, but it doesn’t reveal oxygen levels. Research from CMU introduces a noninvasive optical framework to estimate fetal oxygenation, offering a potential advance in monitoring fetal health during childbirth www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Tracking fetal health through mother’s abdomen
Clinicians rely on fetal heart rate to assess distress during labor, but it doesn’t reveal oxygen levels. New research from Carnegie Mellon introduces a noninvasive optical framework to estimate fetal...
cmu.edu
The Master of Science in Neural Technologies (MiNT) – jointly offered by CMU's Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Biomedical Engineering — places students at the edge of a fast-moving field where neuroscience meets engineering and AI. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
CMU Offers New Master's in Neural Technologies
cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University has named renowned cognitive neuroscientist David Badre as director of the Neuroscience Institute, charting an ambitious course for the next era of cross-disciplinary discovery. His appointment begins July 1, 2026. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
David Badre To Lead Carnegie Mellon’s Neuroscience Institute
David Badre To Lead Carnegie Mellon’s Neuroscience Institute
cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon engineering researchers have designed the first microfabricated stainless steel neural probe that allows for safer, more accurate brain sensing. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Breakthrough in brain sensing
Carnegie Mellon engineering researchers have designed the first microfabricated stainless steel neural probe that allows for safer, more accurate brain sensing.
cmu.edu
We are pleased to announce the new Master’s in Neural Technologies (MiNT) program. Please visit our website to learn more and apply: www.cmu.edu/ni/academics...
Studying drinking in a controlled social environment allows CMU researchers to mix the rigor of the lab with the authentic social contexts where alcohol use usually occurs. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Mixing Lab Rigor with Real Life, CMU Researchers Craft New Recipe for Groundbreaking Alcohol Studies
Studying drinking in a controlled social environment allows CMU researchers to mix the rigor of the lab with the authentic social contexts where alcohol use usually occurs.
cmu.edu
This episode of Vox’s “Unexplainable” podcast features Alison Barth, Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan Professor in the Life Sciences and a member of the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute, and Saket Navlakha, a former CMU postdoctoral researcher... www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
Barth, Former CMU Postdoc Discuss Teenage Brains on Vox’s ‘Unexplainable’
cmu.edu
We have an opening for a Finance Manager! Apply here: tinyurl.com/y4prnbd6
Congratulations Amy Bastian, recipient of the Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences, and congratulations Anjuli Niyogi, recipient of the Carnegie Prize Student Fellowship. #carnegiemellonuniversity #cmuneuro #carnegieprize #BrainHealth #science
Your support on Giving CMU Day will advance the Neuroscience Institute’s work by supporting student and faculty researchers as they discover new insights into the function of the human brain and make substantial progress toward therapies and treatments for neurological disorders tinyurl.com/584u5jex
Dietrich College Neuroscience Innovation Fund
Join me and make a gift to Giving CMU Day 2025
tinyurl.com
Recent developments in brain technology are expanding the horizons of neuroscience research. tinyurl.com/4dyh6d37
First-ever map of brain cell development leads recent advances in neuroscience
First-ever map of brain cell development leads recent advances in neuroscience.
tinyurl.com