Bharadwaj Nandakumar, Ph.D.

Check out our work looking at cortical computations behind the neuronal control of posture, out in Cell reports !!

@poetryinstone @MinOfCultureGoI You are our champion. Thank you for the amazing work your team does and bringing our gods back home 🙏🏾🙏🏾

@buttter_naadodi @MinOfCultureGoI swarajyamag.com/heritage/the-t…?

theprint.in/feature/vs-ram… India @MinOfCultureGoI n idol wing should investigate his idol smuggling connections as well newindianexpress.com/opinion/2021/D… And the Sandeigo museum for his gifts

@EricMTrautmann Wow, wondering whether you look at cross correlation of simultaneous Gpi Units during spontaneous and movement related activity . Those units should be totally uncorrelated in healthy condition. Will be cool to replicate hagai bergmans finding on this

Carolina Mora Lopez, O'Callaghan John, Jan Putzneys, Bogdan Raducanu, Marleen Welkenhuysen, Mark Churchland, Tirin Moore, Michael Shadlen, Krishna Shenoy, Doris Tsao, Barundeb Dutta, and Tim Harris

I'm thrilled to announce that our work to develop the Neuropixels-NHP 1.0 neural recording probe is now out in print in Nature Neuroscience. nature.com/articles/s4159…

How about ‘One Day as a Scientist’…where youngsters spend a day at a research lab, planetarium or space centre and deepen their connect with science? #MannKiBaat

@sparuniisc Wow beautiful

Turn upside down

Unbelievably brilliant. Vision is awesome 😎 (from WhatsApp) #illusions

@charliekirk11 Cats represent a very good animal model for understanding how spinal cord and the central nervous system orchestrates movement, recovery of paralysis etc. The Russians have been at this problem for a while, like it or not. Their science has benefited humanity, just saying

@charliekirk11 The russian cat experiments from Pavlov institute were crucial to our understanding of motor control after spinal cord injury. The current neuro technology to recover from paralysis using epidural stimulators were all built based on the foundational knowledge from those studies

Here are just 15 examples of government waste. Change is coming… 1. Payments to Deceased Individuals: The federal government has disbursed approximately $1.3 billion to individuals who are no longer alive, highlighting significant inefficiencies in payment systems. 2. Unemployment and Social Security Payments to Prisoners: An estimated $171 million has been improperly paid to incarcerated individuals, underscoring vulnerabilities in benefit distribution processes. 3. Medicaid and Medicare Fraud: Fraudulent activities within Medicaid and Medicare programs have resulted in losses of about $101 billion, indicating a need for stricter oversight and fraud prevention measures. 4. Extravagant Government Travel: For instance, a trip by the Biden administration to Ireland cost taxpayers $4 million, raising questions about the necessity and cost-effectiveness of such expenditures. 5. Maintenance of Underutilized Federal Buildings: The government spends approximately $2 billion annually on buildings that are underused or vacant, suggesting a need for better asset management. 6. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives: Around $38.7 million has been allocated to DEI hires, prompting debates about the effectiveness and necessity of such spending. 7. Weapons for Non-Military Agencies: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent $620,000 on weapons, raising concerns about the militarization of civilian agencies. 8. Tax Delinquencies by IRS Employees: Internal Revenue Service employees have accumulated $50 million in unpaid taxes, highlighting issues within the agency responsible for tax collection. 9. Research on Russian Cats: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) allocated $549,000 to study the movement of Russian cats on treadmills, a project criticized for its questionable value. 10. Transgender Monkeys Research: The NIH also spent $477,000 on studies involving transgender monkeys, sparking debates over the relevance and ethics of such research. 11. Drag Shows in Ecuador: A State Department grant of $20,600 funded drag shows in Ecuador, leading to discussions about the appropriateness of funding cultural events abroad. 12. Improper Payments in Federal Programs: In fiscal year 2020, the government made $98 billion in improper payments, including overpayments and underpayments, indicating systemic issues in financial management. 13. Overpayments in Medicare and Medicaid: Improper payments in these programs have been a persistent issue, with billions lost annually due to fraud and errors. 14. Unused Military Equipment: The Department of Defense has been criticized for spending billions on equipment that remains unused or is obsolete, reflecting inefficiencies in defense procurement. 15. Excessive Spending on Public Relations: Federal agencies have spent over $4.5 billion on public relations and advertising, raising questions about the necessity and impact of such expenditures.

Presenting my PhD work from @ucd_neuroeng at the IOSCIRS on the effect of excercise therapy on preserving cortical circuits engaged in #balance control after SCI. Tune in to hear about the brains balancing act after SCI #UCDavis #cortex #SCI #excercise @MiamiProject

@SUBWAY the subway at Walmart Fontainebleau refused to give water and only chose to give soda that had to be paid. Is this your policy ? Extremely disappointed at the agenda to sell unhealthy soda when all I asked was cup of water. The most expensive water I can buy #Subway60231

@bksuhasa Wow 🤩 neurostar, hope you are watching this development, was an early neurostar user. Their automated robotic navigation software was great, their automated drilling based on impedance wasn’t, would some times destroy the integrity of blood vessels . OCT approach is really cool

New pre-print from our lab! We report on the automation of the delicate process of bone removal in rodent cranial microsurgeries. Video shows robotic eggshell engraving & comparison to a manual attempt by an experienced surgeon. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@SutharsanGovind @SRMUAP Wow Congrats 🎉 Sutha

Groundbreaking work by our neuroprosthetics lab. See and hear our trial participant "speak" again with an assist from #AI. ucdavis.health/3yEOHYo #braincomputerinterface #BCI

Meet Casey Harrell, an ALS patient who can speak clearly again thanks to 256 electrodes implanted in his brain trib.al/44dDzce

@SergeyStavisky Wow, fantastic 🥳🥳

5 years ago, I shifted my research from restoring reach and grasp to restoring speech. My hunch was that with intracortical electrodes — which previously enabled fast cursor/arm control — we could accurately decode attempted speech. Today we've delivered. So proud of our team! 👇

@AMRITAedu @ManeeshaSudheer @IUSSTF @EduMinOfIndia @IndiaDST @KrishnashreeA @GoI_MeitY @PMOIndia @amritaworldorg Happy see to #Amrita continuing to engage #UCDavis, both my Alma maters😊life at Amrita has always special

An Amrita delegation visited University of California, Davis. #Amrita #California #UCDavis #AmritaVishwaVidyapeetham #AmritaUniversity #visit #Research #Collaboration

Fantastic opportunity to work in the NeuroModuation, Engineering, and Therapeutics (NeuroMET) Lab of @MatijaM_PhD... keen on closed-loop multi-modal neuromod research nested in a 290,000sq-ft CARF rehab hospital + @BuonicontiFund colleagues? 👇

@carney_lab Presentation looks beautiful. Way to go Rachel 🥳

Great to see Rachel killing it abroad 🤩

@sparuniisc @SfNtweets Wow very interested to check out neuronal activity during sleep and face decoding

Ready or not....here I come to SFN 2023 @SfNtweets to highlight some exciting work from our lab on 256-ch wireless recordings from IT & PMv in freely moving monkeys on Mon Nov 13 at 9:00AM on Poster # DD24 in the session "Visual responses during behavior II". Come check it out!

@VincentCostaPhd @jjsakon The micro drive from gray matter allows you to drive individual electrodes 96 channels, can access thalamus, M1, PMd, SMA and STN simultaneously from NHP

@jjsakon Acute or go home. Arrays trigger my fear of commitment.

Neurophysiologists (any species), how many areas have your recorded simultaneously (spikes…not calcium imaging)?

This feels like the beginning of something very BIG for the field: Training Transformers on spiking activity from different tasks and different monkeys to produce a universal decoder. ... May change systems neuro and BCIs Congrats to the team