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BRAIN Graduate student wins NSF fellowship

BRAIN Graduate student wins NSF fellowship

Faheem Ershad, a graduate student at the University of Houston IUCRC BRAIN, won the NSF Fellowship this year. His mentor is BRAIN PI Cunjiang Y.  Faheem is also the vice president of the BRAIN Student Group at UH.   More information about him is in the article. ...
‘Smart’ robotic system could offer home-based rehabilitation

‘Smart’ robotic system could offer home-based rehabilitation

Researchers in Houston and elsewhere have shown that robotic systems controlled by the user’s own brain activity can help patients recovering from stroke and other disabling injuries. But the demonstrations have taken place in highly controlled settings, and...
How Picasso’s Journey From Prodigy to Icon Revealed a Genius

How Picasso’s Journey From Prodigy to Icon Revealed a Genius

Intense, provocative, disturbing, and captivating, the legendary artist led a life of restless brilliance.Picasso never stopped reinventing his artistic style, and nothing was out of reach. He created thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, watercolors, and...

Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program

The National Science Foundation awarded (#1757949) the BRAIN Center at the University of Houston Site a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program entitled  ‘REU Site: Neurotechnologies to Help the Body Move, Heal, and Feel Again’ to train 12 talented...
The mind-reading devices that can free paralysed muscles

The mind-reading devices that can free paralysed muscles

Eugene Alford just couldn’t get his legs to move, but it wasn’t for want of trying. It was 2012, and he was in a laboratory at the University of Houston in Texas, participating in a study that was designed to see whether people with paralysis could control a robotic...