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… that the smell wafting into a male mouse’s nose stimulates neurons in its vomeronasal organ to send an electrical signal … there, Choi’s team discovered, relay the signal on to neurons in a region called the cortical amygdala that govern … of how innate circuitry can allow the brain to integrate sensory context to guide social behavior. …

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Kang Shen, PhD, HHMI, Stanford University

Whole-brain tracking in moving animals

… an elegant circuit that integrates multiple sources of sensory information to endow worms with the flexibility to … track how serotonin release and reception in networks of neurons in the worm affect behavior. …

Award honors Elly Nedivi’s research on cortical plasticity

November 06, 2023

… cortex, the brain’s outer layers where circuits of neurons enable functions ranging from sensory processing to cognition. These circuits can …

Study models how ketamine’s molecular action leads to its effects on the brain

May 20, 2024

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Li-Huei Tsai, PhD, MIT

… We developed a method called G amma ENtrainment Using Sensory stimuli (GENUS) , which uses patterned light and … GENUS and explore the feasibility of this non-invasive sensory stimulation approach for treating neurological …

Celebrating 20 years of discovery, Picower Institute looks ahead to continuing impact

September 28, 2022

… event memories are represented by connected ensembles of neurons called engrams. A key ingredient of Aqrabawi’s new … a symptom common across many autism spectrum disorders: sensory hypersensitivity. He’s found that it derives from … of neuron plays as a hub of cortical circuits enabling sensory processing in mice. As he spoke he traced roots of …

Neural representations of categories, rules and concepts

… K. Miller’s lab has made a series of discoveries about how neurons the brain’s prefrontal cortex (PFC) enables us to … papers. In one he and co-authors were able to identify PFC neurons that faithfully represented that categories of images … of a pictured object is transformed from basic sensory processing to abstract categorization as it flows …

‘Rewiring’ cortical circuits

… plasticity becomes manifest at the connection between two neurons called a synapse and that most of the synapses neurons form to receive input from others reside on their … but is a lifelong process. In 2006 they found that while sensory areas of the brain show much greater degrees of …