Brain and Behavior Institute

It’s been a great year for research at @UofMaryland! Take a look back at the research highlights of 2023 in this special edition of the Research Roundup: A Year in Review.🐢 go.umd.edu/47U5EdZ

Congratulations to @ChemBiochemUMD's Peter Nemes on receiving a @cziscience grant! Using #CuttingEdge technologies developed in the @NemesLab, Peter will lead a project aimed at understanding the role of metabolism and #GeneExpression in cell development. go.umd.edu/czi-grant

Congrats to @ChemBiochemUMD's Peter Nemes, Biology's Colenso Speer and a team of #UMD students and alums for landing their interdisciplinary research on the cover of @an_chem! The team studied an important developmental stage linked to #CircadianRhythm. go.umd.edu/circadian

WONDERFUL FINAL DAY of the NCI Nanotechnology Annual PI meeting! HUGE APPLAUSE FOR ALL He Lab presenters @WenquanOu, @hyeyeon_gong, and @JamesShamul!!👏👏👏Congrats to @JamesShamul for winning Most Outstanding Poster award!! 🥳🎊 Excited for next year’s meeting! @theNCI @UMDBIOE

#UMD education and psychology researchers–led by #EdTerps Nathan Fox and Brenda Jones Harden and @bsosumd's @TracyRigginsPhd–have begun recruiting pregnant participants for the largest-ever long-term study of early brain and child development in the US. brnw.ch/21wDonL

As we age, hearing difficulties can disrupt daily life and isolate us from the world. #UMD researchers find hearing loss isn’t just about hearing—and pioneer new trainings to help our brains sort through overlapping chatter and noise. go.umd.edu/45fnmXe | #FearlesslyUMD

Congrats to my longtime friend and @MattRoesch_UMD and colleague @LiNeurolab! @umdnacs and @bsosumd

Funded by a $1.9M NIH award, BBI collaborators Matt Roesch and Anna Li will establish the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in drug-seeking behavior and look into the possibility of manipulating its function through cutting-edge epigenetic tools. 🔗 today.umd.edu/how-repairing-…

Welcome back, #ScienceTerps! We hope you’re having a fantastic first day of class, and we are so excited for another year of learning together ❤️🐢💛

I loved reading this @bbiumd/@UofMaryland Today article about the important work HESP Professor Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah and @PSYCTerps Associate Professor L. Robert Slevc are doing to help people with aphasia. Consider giving it a read below. today.umd.edu/umd-researcher…

Faroqi-Shah and Slevc posit that, like the chocolates that Lucy and Ethel attempt to prepare for distribution in an iconic “I Love Lucy” episode, nouns arrive at the area of the brain dedicated to articulatory planning but pass by unserviced due to a bottleneck in cognitive load.

A new $3.1M NIH award will allow BBI collaborators Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah & Bob Slevc to use MEG imaging to investigate whether the timing of operations for language production is misaligned in those with agrammatic aphasia, a common post-stroke disorder. 🔗 today.umd.edu/umd-researcher…

With an @NIH fellowship, @umdnacs #GraduateStudent Rose Ying works to uncover the brain's biological mechanisms responsible for #PerceptualLearning. Read how Rose went from being an @aaus research diver to researching auditory neurocircuitry w/ @CarasLab: go.umd.edu/rying

Congratulations to @PSYCTerps Associate Professor @ajshackman, who is delving into the factors governing anxiety-fueled drinking with support from a new five-year, $3.1 million award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

VP for Research Gregory F. Ball delivered an honorary keynote address at the annual @SBNtweets meeting last week after receiving the 2023 Daniel S. Lehrman Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a distinguished researcher. Congratulations, Dr. Ball!

Check out our 2023 summer #ReadingList for #ScienceTerps, with books recommended by CMNS faculty members about #MachineLearning, molecular science and more 📚 go.umd.edu/cmnsreads23

Autism spectrum disorder often entails issues with attention or listening—particularly distractibility by background noise. New research by Nikolas Francis (@sanacerebri) and Behtash Babadi examines the neural networks that may underpin these symptoms. today.umd.edu/autism-researc…

Is it possible to gain the effects of training without years of practice? A new $2.3M NIH award will allow Melissa Caras (@CarasLab) to examine connections between the brain’s auditory and orbitofrontal cortices to identify the neural basis of expertise. today.umd.edu/no-pain-some-g…

Thanks to funds from #UMD’s Grand Challenges Grant Program, MILE is taking on the grand challenge of inequity in literacy so that all Maryland children can have a bright future regardless of their race, ethnicity or first language. research.umd.edu/mile | #FearlesslyUMD

A hearty welcome to new BBI-PSYC assistant professor Dr. Evan Hart!