Rune W. Berg
@runewberg.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist in Copenhagen, Dept. of Neuroscience | PI at Berg Lab CPH | Motor control | Networks | Spinal Cord | PhD from UC San Diego Lab page: https://berg-lab.net/ President of Danish Society for Neuroscience ( https://dsfn.dk/ )
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Walking is an essential part of life- yet we do not know how the nervous system generates the underlying neural programs.

Please find our sneak-peek preprint on neural generation of locomotion in the mouse:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pan-neuronal one-spot tracks in lumbar cord w clearing & LSM
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EMBS IEEE conference kicked off in style with award ceremony #embs #ieee
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Congrats Jaspreet! This is an excellent and interesting paper.
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Our paper on “Pedunculopontine-stimulation obstructs hippocampal theta rhythm and halts movement” is finally out!! Please check out!! Congrats to all the coauthors @SalifKomi, @GraceHouser, @Oksana, @Madelaine and our supervisor @runewberg.bsky.social

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Pedunculopontine-stimulation obstructs hippocampal theta rhythm and halts movement - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Pedunculopontine-stimulation obstructs hippocampal theta rhythm and halts movement
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Animal roles in medical discoveries 🙌
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In case you missed it, here is an AI-generated Podcast of our paper in Nature from 2022, "Movement is governed by rotational neural dynamics in spinal motor networks" - I must say the AI algorithm is doing an excellent job.

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Linden et al 2022 -
This is an AI-generated podcast of the article by Linden et al. in Nature 2022 -
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Too busy to read our preprint? Here's an AI-generated podcast of our recent new theory of the neural mechanism of locomotion in mammals:

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Podcast of Komi et al 2025:
This is an AI generated Podcast of the preprint on
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Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine- movie associated with the Brain prize 2024 with interesting discussion and perspectives:
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Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine
YouTube video by BrainPrize
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Should domain experts evaluate a paper/grant that has paradigm-challenging ideas? Yamamoto says never because they are unlikely to do it objectively since it threatens their own paradigms. Instead, use generalist reviewers. Interesting interview:

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69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail - Night Science
Keith Yamamoto, professor and science policy leader at UCSF, discusses with us how modern science became trapped in a system that discourages creative risk-taking. Keith contrasts academia's fear of f...
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Science without theory is not science. Here is a common misunderstanding ( ):
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Registration and abstract submission is open for the Oslo meeting - June 16-19, 2025. Everyone is welcome from anywhere in the world!

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FENS Regional Meeting 2025
Welcome to the FENS Regional Meeting 2025 — in Oslo, Norway.
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Reposted by Rune W. Berg
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Our new preprint on how excitatory V2a and inhibitory V1 and V2b neurons cooperate to drive scratching rhythm, with a new neuromechanical model showing how CPG perturbations affect rhythm and phase of motoneuron firing and frequency of joint oscillations
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The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation
Rhythmic motor behaviors are generated by neural networks termed central pattern generators (CPGs). Although locomotor CPGs have been extensively characterized, it remains unknown how the neuronal pop...
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runewberg.bsky.social
Walking is an essential part of life- yet we do not know how the nervous system generates the underlying neural programs.

Please find our sneak-peek preprint on neural generation of locomotion in the mouse:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pan-neuronal one-spot tracks in lumbar cord w clearing & LSM
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FENS forum 2026 has changed from Madrid to Barcelona!

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The Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (July 24-27, 2025) and organizers are inviting scientist from abroad. They give travel awards to enthusiastic, leading, non-Japanese neuroscientists coming to present their work- information below:

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It will be held at the Niigata Convention Center 'Toki Messe' from July 24 to 27, 2025.
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This is amazing! Congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Over a century after Sherrington's discovery of the stretch #reflex, muscle #spindles continue to surprise us. Check out this new paper from the labs of Bellardita and Di Giovanni, revealing that #macrophages directly excite muscle spindles to enhance #locomotion. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Macrophages excite muscle spindles with glutamate to bolster locomotion - Nature
A population of macrophages with exclusive molecular and functional signatures in the muscle spindles express machinery for synthesizing and releasing glutamate, and a cellular component, the muscle s...
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