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Aging Brain Initiative symposium showcases ‘cutting edge’ research across MIT

November 01, 2023
… to advance understanding of age-related neurodegenerative disease dementia neurodegeneration aging epigenetics Seed … neuroscience, and other disciplines, presenters at MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative Symposium Oct. 23 delivered a rich … region called the striatum. She gave an example of work on Huntington’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease of aging. …

Genome-wide genetic screening in the mammalian brain

… study published in Neuron in January 2020, Myriam Heiman ’s team at The Picower Institute and the Broad Institute came … striatum of the mouse brain, a brain region implicated in Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and various neuropsychiatric …

Myriam Heiman

… and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Huntington's Disease Neuro Genomics and Proteomics Parkinson's disease …

Petite & Profound

June 22, 2023
… so integral to understanding nervous system health, disease and evolution. circuits C. elegans neurodegeneration … from neural activity. Picower Professor Susumu Tonegawa’s 1987 Nobel Prize-winning immunology research involved mice. … studies have also produced mechanistic insights into Huntington’s disease, epilepsy, autism and neuropathy. For …

Life and death factors for neurons

… factors for neurons Discoveries Diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and Huntington’s are “neurodegenerative” because over time more … cells in people with the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease, Heiman’s lab devised a novel way, called “SLIC,” of …

TRAP

… the activity of particular cell types, such as studies of Huntington’s disease in which striatal neurons degenerate. TRAP works by …

Cutting Edge Approaches to Studying the Aging Brain

… States https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46 Symposia Alzheimer's Disease Public Event Join us in person or online on Monday, … Lab Pooled, optical proteomic profiling platform to study Huntington's Disease pathways 9 Andrew Kirjner Fiete Lab …
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