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… stimulation over 2 years is safe, feasible, and may slow cognitive decline and biomarker progression, especially in … measures of sleep quality and a series of five standard cognitive and behavioral tests. Two participants gave blood … thousands of them on criteria such as age, gender, initial cognitive scores, and retests at similar timepoints across a …

… in The Picower Institute and MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.  Jun Huh, Harvard Medical School … fos (magenta) when IL-1 beta was administered vs. when a control (vehicle) chemical was. “Our findings implicate IL-1β …

… . “We and others have generated large amounts of data from control and ADRD subjects, including single-cell genomics, …

… light. Tonegawa’s team thereby gained the ability to take control of memories. In the study, Redondo and Kim labeled … accordingly when the researchers used their optogenetic control to reactivate the place memory. But then, Redondo, … anesthetics might do a better job and cause fewer cognitive side effects, Brown’s lab led by postdoctoral …

… Institute and MIT’s Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, pointed out that the brain and the body … body temperature plummets. The brain circuits that exert control over body temperature are another area of active …

… and repetitive behaviors. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that 1 in 31 American eight-year-olds had … said Sur who also led MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences from 1997 to 2012. “The disorder manifests … like humans do, which is important because prediction is a cognitive function known to differ in ASDs. Structural …

… send the neurotransmitter glutamate across synapses to control muscles in the fly larvae. To study how the active …

… roles in the body’s defense against infection, helping to control inflammation and coordinating the responses of other … says Gloria Choi , an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences, a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for … one of the ways that the immune system works is to control the host behavior, to protect the host itself and …

… during stimulation, MRI scans of brain volume, and cognitive testing. The stimulation device the volunteers used … seizures. In the Phase 2A study, neither treated nor control volunteers reported serious adverse events. Both … showed any differences after just three months on most cognitive tests, but the treatment group did perform …