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Â鶹ŮÀÉ Engineers Prosthetic Hand That Learns, Adapts to Each User

By | July 1, 2026

Â鶹ŮÀÉ researchers have developed an AI-powered prosthetic system that pairs custom 3D-printed wearable sleeves with soft magnetic sensors, enabling more natural, personalized and reliable hand control.

Out of Darkness, Blind Cavefish Illuminate Brain Evolution

By | June 24, 2026

Â鶹ŮÀÉ researchers discovered that blind Mexican cavefish have evolved brain circuits that reverse light and dark responses, offering new clues about evolution, sensory processing and neurological disorders.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ Study Identifies Immune Pathway to Slow Huntington Disease

By | June 8, 2026

Â鶹ŮÀÉ researchers found that blocking a key immune pathway reduced brain inflammation, protected neurons and improved movement in a Huntington disease mouse model, revealing a promising therapeutic target.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ Study Maps Brain Blueprint of a Fly's Split-Second Great Escape

By | May 13, 2026

A new Â鶹ŮÀÉ study maps the first neural blueprint behind a fly's lightning-fast escape reflexes, offering new insight into how brains rapidly coordinate movement.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ Review: Obesity and Alzheimer's Share Disease Metabolic Pathways

By | May 5, 2026

A review from Â鶹ŮÀÉ finds increasing evidence that obesity and Alzheimer's disease are biologically linked and share early metabolic disruptions.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ Discovery of Tiny Cell 'Tunnels' Could Slow Huntington's Disease

By | March 20, 2026

Â鶹ŮÀÉ researchers have discovered how the toxic protein behind Huntington's disease spreads between brain cells through tiny tunnels, revealing a promising target to slow or halt disease progression.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ's Lawrence Toll, Ph.D., Named Senior Member of the NAI

By | March 19, 2026

Â鶹ŮÀÉ's Lawrence Toll, Ph.D., has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors for pioneering neuropharmacology research advancing safer pain therapies and addiction treatments.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ Awarded $2.4M NIH Grant for Immune Signaling and Social Behavior

By | March 6, 2026

Â鶹ŮÀÉ has received a $2.4M NIH grant to study how the neuronal immune receptor IL-1R1 shapes brain circuits, behavior, and social function, offering new insights into neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ Presents 'Insights VIII' Art Exhibition

By | January 29, 2026

Â鶹ŮÀÉ's Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute and Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters will host "Insights VIII: Creativity and the Bipolar Brain" at the Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton campus.

Â鶹ŮÀÉ Inductees of Florida Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine

By | December 4, 2025

Three Â鶹ŮÀÉ researchers - Randy Blakely, Ph.D., Gregg Fields, Ph.D., and Hari Kalva, Ph.D. - were inducted into the 2025 class of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida.

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