Ariana Tortolani

Computational Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate @UChicago 🧠 Past: @BU_Tweets ‘20 | she/her

[John Downey @John_E_Downey]

Our paper on S1-M1 connectivity in closed-loop intracortical BCI is out today. You can see the summary from last year below. This was a big effort from the @Corbionics team including 3 dedicated study participants and a many researchers.

https://t.co/hUfwQ2T76L

[UChicago Biological Sciences @UChicagoBSD]

“I think we as scientists embody something fundamentally, beautifully human … I still, idealistically and perhaps naively, believe in beauty because we, or some of us at least, experience it and are moved by it.” — Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, 1973-2023 https://t.co/aykDoe98Q6

[Brent Doiron @BrentDoiron]

The deadline for coming to UChicago's new venture in theoretical neuroscience is approaching. Join us @UChicago_Brains and @UChicago as we carve out our brand of neurotheory.

[Ariana Tortolani @Ari_Tort]

First output from our BCI team! Proud to be a part of this group 🧠🦾

[John Downey @John_E_Downey]

Check out our first pre-print from the multisite brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical trial for people with upper-limb paralysis at @UChicago and @UPMC. 1/10 https://t.co/PWvm031NvG

[sliman bensmaia (@[email protected]) @slimanjbensmaia]

Hear ye, hear ye! ICMS of human somatosensory cortex (S1) activates motor cortex (M1), this activity is task-dependent and somatotopically patterned, and disrupts motor decoding. Collaboration between @UChicago @UPMC @NorthwesternU
https://t.co/BsxxSHaKtF

[sliman bensmaia (@[email protected]) @slimanjbensmaia]

How are hands so versatile and precise? @AntonSobinov and I review the anatomy of the hand, its musculature, and the expansive neural circuits that mediate manual dexterity. I learned a lot writing this and hope you will too!
https://t.co/RjxvVVSpeR

[Matt Kaufman @MattAntimatt]

New on @biorxiv by Peter Malonis, Nicho Hatsopoulos, Jason MacLean, and me: inferring inputs to monkey motor cortex to understand corrective movements. https://t.co/bFHdyEfwCT 🧵👇1/8

[Ariana Tortolani @Ari_Tort]

so grateful I was able to return to Boston to properly close this chapter of my life #BU2020 🎓❤️

[Boston University @BU_Tweets]

At long last Commencement: nearly 18 months after receiving their diplomas, members of #BU2020 donned scarlet caps and gowns and on Sunday, October 3, as the University had promised, were honored at BU’s 147th Commencement, held on Nickerson Field.

🎥⬇️

[Ariana Tortolani @Ari_Tort]

Once again incredibly privileged to have the opportunity to work with Scott on our BCI project! Scroll through the article to see yours truly in action https://t.co/Plm6PEDXwo

[Ariana Tortolani @Ari_Tort]

excited to be a part of this team ! Scott is truly a joy to work with

[UChicago Biological Sciences @UChicagoBSD]

After surviving a car accident, Scott Imbrie proved his doctors wrong by relearning how to walk. Now he's a participant in a research study allowing him to sense and manipulate a virtual hand and, eventually, a robotic prosthetic. https://t.co/zKuns3uHhe

[Michael Hasselmo @HasselmoMichael]

A postdoctoral position is available in my lab at Boston University for multiple single unit recording in cortical structures in navigating rodents or fiber photometry of modulatory input. Prior experience with one of these techniques preferred. Send CV to [email protected]. AA/EOE

[University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute @UChicago_Brains]

The Neuroscience Institute is excited to announce Brent Doiron, PhD (@BrentDoiron) as the inaugural director of the Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior!

Read more:
https://t.co/hVMZrlymWZ

[sliman bensmaia (@[email protected]) @slimanjbensmaia]

University of Chicago team working with human subjects to create more dexterous brain-controlled bionic hands looking for a programmer to help develop experimental software (MATLAB, C++, Python). https://t.co/9IJmejcBlV. #bci #neuroscience #robotics #bionics #neuroengineering

[National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences]

We welcome John H.R. Maunsell of @Uchicago to the National Academy of Sciences in honor of his contributions to physiology. #NAS158 Read more: https://t.co/NfkaIGCu2b

[olivia lutz @olutz8]

First paper of grad school ✅ we review proprioceptive representations of the hand in somatosensory cortex which has received little attention. We discuss how future proprioception studies may enhance our understanding and help restore it via electrical stimulation ⚡️

[Ariana Tortolani @Ari_Tort]

a feeling I remember all too well...
reach out to your undergrad friends who are graduating, life is most certainly uncertain at the moment

[JustAnSVD @DavidSabatini2]

And quietly, in a pandemic, I just ceased to be an undergrad.

[Mia Paletta Velasco @MiaPaletta]

Happy March 365th, y’all 😳

[Ariana Tortolani @Ari_Tort]

...and thought Ramón y Cajal was two different people

[Ariana Tortolani @Ari_Tort]

small town girl moves to the city

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This amazing little tool simply draws all streets in any city you want. As examples here are the town I grew up in (20k residents) and the city I live in (5M residents). Have a play with it. The exported screenshots make great desktop backgrounds. Source: https://t.co/GmEQnq8ALj

[Brent Doiron @BrentDoiron]

My very first tweet is to announce that the Department of Neurobiology at #UChicago is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in #compneuro #neurotheory. Any and all that are interested should apply! https://t.co/4WeRRVf4eX