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
Svend Brinkmann- delivering the keynote talk for the Neurograd 2026
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
Nanna MacAulay is introducing todays agenda
View of venue from a hotel room
Time for a visit to the outdoor spa
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...
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...
