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Neurophysics and neuroscience, computational neuroscience, motor circuits, population dynamics. University of Copenhagen.

Fifth-floor Christmas Party 2025! We won the best

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Lab lunch- farewell to Olivia

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Rune W. Berg @runewberg.bsky.social 1 måned

New paper: Spinal circuitry modeled for locomotion using spatial transcriptomics and cell-type projections. Local excitation, long-range inhibition, and a longitudinal skew—an asymmetric "Mexican hat"—give rhythm, rotational dynamics, and gait, with no pacemakers.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rune W. Berg @runewberg.bsky.social 7 måneder

What does the spinal cord actually do? Most textbooks draw the spinal cord as a relay station- but it is much more than that. The spinal cord is not a cable — it's a computer.

The human spinal cord contains 1 billion neurons that generate almost all bodily movements. Cortex has about 16 billion.
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Rune W. Berg @runewberg.bsky.social 7 måneder

Sayre's law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

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Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen @neuroscience-ucph.bsky.social 7 måneder

The exciting time of the year, when the Brain Prize winners are announced, is coming up soon!

The announcement of The Brain Prize 2026 will take place on 5th March at 4pm CET on our website brainprize.org

The world’s largest neuroscience research prize is awarded yearly by the Lundbeck Foundation.
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Berg Lab CPH @berglabcph.bsky.social 7 måneder

Rune W. Berg () has now been formally accepted into the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (danaak.dk). Congrats!

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