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… at whole-brain scale, during development and after Tsai's sensory Alzheimer's treatment. Young-Gyun Park presented a … and Susumu Tonegawa labs to track down the ensemble of neurons that form a contextual memory, or “engram,” even … insights into how cortical circuits and cells represent sensory information and use it to guide movement and …

… have this ability, you’d be overwhelmed by details of the sensory world. Every time you experienced something, if it … in a different part of the brain takes over when simple, sensory comparison is not enough for us to judge whether two …

… between an external model of the world (delivered by sensory cues) and an internal model of the world (shaped by … and in vivo imaging of transplanted human stem cellderived neurons in the mouse visual cortex. Sayak Bhattacharya Earl … is focused on investigating etiologies and treatments for sensory disabilities. She has identified a new method of …

… and chaos. It’s got to be excitable enough for its neurons to influence one another, but if it gets too … drug that binds to GABA receptors in the brain, inhibiting neurons that have those receptors. Other anesthesia drugs act … were able to quantify how the brain responds to sensory inputs, such as sounds, or to spontaneous …

… Communications . Working in rhythm There are millions of neurons in the brain, and each neuron produces its own … gamma rhythms are associated with encoding and retrieving sensory information. They also found that when gamma rhythms … rhythms are produced by superficial layers, which process sensory information. They also found that the beta waves were …

… feels like and how the perceived features are encoded by neurons. But a second percept, explicitly or implicitly, … and duration – of direct manipulation of firing in sensory cortex, which we verify by optogenetics in rats. … to the processing of information in the human tactile sensory system. Outside my research activities, I am …

… researchers can identify functional regions by engineering neurons to flash when they become electrically active (and … studies of structural and functional coupling in other sensory and non-sensory cortical areas in the brains of mice and other animal …

… the entire connectome, or wiring diagram, among its 302 neurons has been fully mapped and its genes are readily … employing neuromodulators, integrate inputs such as sensory information and internal states to produce flexible … a model that can predict how a majority of the worm’s neurons encode and represent its behaviors, and found that …

… bands associated with encoding, or inhibiting encoding, of sensory information across the cortex cortex visual cortex … By making and analyzing measurements of thousands of neurons and surrounding electric fields in three cortical … encoding of information – a form of top-down control of sensory activity. Meanwhile, they hypothesize that the …

… much less is visible in the cortex of a mouse treated with sensory gamma stimulation (right) than in a mouse left … and labeling, respectively. Memory improvement The brain’s neurons generate electrical signals that synchronize to form … demonstrated here is that we can use a totally different sensory modality to induce gamma oscillations in the brain. …