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Bear elected member of National Academy of Medicine

October 17, 2022

… neurodevelopmental diseases. amblyopia Fragile X Syndrome synapse function Academy recognizes Mark Bear’s influential …

Findings weaken notion that size equals strength for neural connections

June 30, 2020

… Fragile X syndrome – by finding a “Protein X” mGluR5 synapse function synapse synapse formation synaptic plasticity plasticity Fragile X …

Sloan Fellowship will help Fan advance technology to study how brain circuits change amid learning

February 17, 2026

Protein has unique effects in neural connections related to information processing

October 09, 2018

CPG15 (“Neuritin”)

… it in synapses when mice were in the dark caused synapse stabilization just as if there were visual activity. …

Multi-color two-photon microscopy

… Institute and the MIT Department of Biology in 2000. Synapse Mapping Neural Plasticity Genetic Engineering Autism … Early Life Stress Brain Imaging Activity Sensors Glia synapse formation synaptic transmission glia epilepsy … key adaptations to the core fusion machinery require synapse specific SNARE-binding proteins, including …

40 Hz vibrations reduce Alzheimer’s pathology, symptoms in mouse models

May 18, 2023

The machinery of neural communication

… membrane so their contents can be released across the synapse. Syt1, which is attached to the vesicles, does not … dial to control how strongly communication occurs across a synapse. …