Brain and Behavior Institute
@bbiumd
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The BBI is an interdisciplinary institute at the University of Maryland that elevates campus neuroscience research & advances the translation of basic science.
College Park, MD
Joined July 2016
RT @UMDResearch: It’s been a great year for research at @UofMaryland! Take a look back at the research highlights of 2023 in this special e….
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RT @UMDscience: Congratulations to @ChemBiochemUMD's Peter Nemes on receiving a @cziscience grant!. Using #CuttingEdge technologies develop….
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RT @UMDscience: Congrats to @ChemBiochemUMD's Peter Nemes, Biology's Colenso Speer and a team of #UMD students and alums for landing their….
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RT @shawnhelab: WONDERFUL FINAL DAY of the NCI Nanotechnology Annual PI meeting! HUGE APPLAUSE FOR ALL He Lab presenters @WenquanOu, @hyeye….
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RT @UMDCollegeofEd: #UMD education and psychology researchers–led by #EdTerps Nathan Fox and Brenda Jones Harden and @bsosumd's @TracyRiggi….
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RT @UofMaryland: As we age, hearing difficulties can disrupt daily life and isolate us from the world. #UMD researchers find hearing loss….
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RT @dj_bolger: Congrats to my longtime friend and @MattRoesch_UMD and colleague @LiNeurolab! @umdnacs and @bsosumd.
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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. 🔗
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RT @UMDscience: Welcome back, #ScienceTerps! We hope you’re having a fantastic first day of class, and we are so excited for another year o….
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RT @srivera_tw: I loved reading this @bbiumd/@UofMaryland Today article about the important work HESP Professor Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah and @PS….
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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.
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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. 🔗
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RT @UMDscience: With an @NIH fellowship, @umdnacs #GraduateStudent Rose Ying works to uncover the brain's biological mechanisms responsible….
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RT @bsosumd: Congratulations to @PSYCTerps Associate Professor @ajshackman, who is delving into the factors governing anxiety-fueled drinki….
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RT @UMDResearch: VP for Research Gregory F. Ball delivered an honorary keynote address at the annual @SBNtweets meeting last week after rec….
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RT @UMDscience: Check out our 2023 summer #ReadingList for #ScienceTerps, with books recommended by CMNS faculty members about #MachineLear….
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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.
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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.
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RT @UofMaryland: Thanks to funds from #UMD’s Grand Challenges Grant Program, MILE is taking on the grand challenge of inequity in literacy….
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A hearty welcome to new BBI-PSYC assistant professor Dr. Evan Hart!.
Very happy to announce the newest member of the @PSYCTerps family, Dr. Evan Hart. Welcome to the University of Maryland and @bsosumd. Will be great to have you as part of the @bbiumd and @umdnacs communities!.
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