NeuronS_MATTR Network

We are a new research initiative co-funded by NCCIH & NINDS to understand how massage and other mechanotherapies relieve pain and promote tissue healing.

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

🆕 We're now on Bluesky! Find us at @neurons-mattr.bsky.social for: 🧠 Neural mechanisms research updates 🔬 Workshop highlights 🌍 Global research community news Follow us there! ➡️ @neurons-mattr.bsky.social #TouchResearch #ManualTherapy #Bluesky

[NIH @NIH]

🎉 Congratulations to four NIH researchers and leaders newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) — one of the highest honors in health and medicine!

🏅 Dr. Anthony Letai, NCI Director
🏅 Dr. Francesco DeMayo, NIEHS Senior Investigator
🏅 Dr. Swee Lay Thein, NHLBI Senior Investigator
🏅 Dr. Daniel S. Reich, NINDS Senior Investigator

This honor recognizes outstanding professional achievement and a lasting commitment to service — and it's a perfect reflection of the scientific leadership and dedication NIH researchers bring to advancing biomedical research and improving health for all.

👏 Congratulations on this incredible, well-deserved achievement!

🔗 Meet the newly elected NAM members: https://t.co/yvcgJ7c2RK

[The Brain Prize @BrainPrize]

2026 Brain Prize winner Patrik Ernfors has spent his career studying pain. Then lifting a heavy sofa left him with years of chronic pain — and a deeper appreciation of why finding treatments matters.
#Neuroscience #BrainPrize

[Salim S. Hayek, MD @salimhayek]

Chairs who treat culture as discretionary will always find a budget line reason to cut it, until the attrition data forces the conversation. Put a real dollar figure on your last departure. The math changes the conversation before the attrition does.

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

Inagural FBM conference! The power of the healing touch. Find out more at https://t.co/JWY16oDkK1

[Beste Gülsuna, MD @BesteGulsuna]

Excited to see our lab being utilized in new ways.

This year, we hosted our first-ever Sub-I Bootcamp, developed a neuroanatomy curriculum, and created a novel multidomain assessment framework for residency applicants. @OU_Neurosurgery

Looking forward to sharing more soon.

[nature @Nature]

Experienced researchers are less likely to produce ‘disruptive’ science than are those just starting their careers, finds an analysis of scientific papers published by 12.5 million researchers over 60 years

https://t.co/azibpaEgnN

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

Touch, force, and the science underneath. For the first time, the three FBM research networks gather in person - where neuroscience meets manual therapy meets engineering. August 6-7, Fairfax VA - https://t.co/JWY16oDkK1

[The Brain Prize @BrainPrize]

Brain Prize winners 2026, Patrik Ernfors (Karolinska Institutet) and David Ginty (Harvard Medical School) delivering their prize lectures on the neuroscience of touch and pain at the University of Copenhagen. #BrainPrize2026 #Somatosensation #Neuroscience

[The Brain Prize @BrainPrize]

HM The King of Denmark presents this year’s winners of The Brain Prize, Patrik Ernfors and David Ginty with their Brain Prize medals at a ceremony in Copenhagen this evening. #BrainPrize2026 #Neuroscience #LundbeckFoundation

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

How does touch shape the body and brain? How do manual therapies actually work?
Join us Aug6-7 in Fairfax, VA - where neuroscience meets manual therapy, biomechanics and engineering.
The conference on Mechanisms of Touch & Force-Based Manipulations
https://t.co/zMSAB6QfdN

[Alexander Harris @dr_alexharris]

Folks, the video abstract on this paper is a masterpiece

https://t.co/YzQh4FKGo1

H/t @USkupio

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

🆕 We're now on Bluesky! Find us at @neurons-mattr.bsky.social for: 📷 Neural mechanisms research updates 📷 Global research community news Follow us there! 📷 @neurons-mattr.bsky.social #TouchResearch#ManualTherapy #Bluesky

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

Johan Wessberg giving a very nice historical perspective of human microneurography at the NeuronS MATTR summer school.

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

Terry kicking us off at the NeuronS MATTR summer school in Sweden!!!

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED to March 2! Apply now for the NeuronS_MATTR Summer Workshop @LinkopingU, Sweden (June 22-26). Learn microneurography & manual therapy research techniques. https://t.co/aXV2QloEYf #ManualTherapyResearch

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

Great upcoming meeting!

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

🌟 Exciting Opportunity! NeuronS_MATTR Network's Travel Awards for Inclusive Excellence are here! Supporting trainees, early-stage investigators, & underrepresented minority researchers to showcase their work at conferences. 🌍✈️ Details: https://t.co/pUxxKsIaOX

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

Exciting funding opportunities at NeuronS_MATTR! Dive into Neural Mechanisms of Soft-Tissue Manipulation & Affective Touch with innovative mini-sabbaticals, or grab travel awards for inclusive excellence. https://t.co/qIrL55uy4X

[NeuronS_MATTR Network @NeuronS_MATTR]

Join us for our 10th virtual seminar on Jul 23, 11am ET/8am PT. Dr. Jeanie Park discusses "Sympathetic regulation in humans with chronic disease: microneurography applications." Learn from Emory's expert in autonomic regulation & blood pressure control. https://t.co/Av8ywb8Xyv