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… study the role of specific cell types in brain aging and cognitive decline. The research is part of Tsai’s efforts to … he joined a lab that studied fire ants. That’s where the neuroscience bug started to bite (thankfully not literally). … While Victor was studying the fish and learning about the neuroscience of how they sense with electricity, he began …

… patients, says Li-Huei Tsai, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience, director of MIT’s Picower Institute for … professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the McGovern … which we have known for a long time are linked to cognitive function, play a critical role in the capacity of …

… learning and memory. Even though this year’s Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting was entirely online, it remained …

… study senior author Li-Huei Tsai , Picower Professor of Neuroscience and director of The Picower Institute and MIT’s … experiments, led by Mitch Murdock when he was a Brain and Cognitive Sciences doctoral student at MIT, showing that when …

… waves, or rhythms, originating in the brain’s frontal cognitive regions tamped down neural activity associated with … over the cortex,” said Earl Miller , Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and co-senior author of the study …

… known as burst suppression, which is associated with cognitive impairments after the patient wakes up. A new study … Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience and a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for …

… Many cognitive processes, such as decision-making, take place … across time windows of hours or days. “A thought or a cognitive function usually lasts 30 seconds or a minute. … would have an incredible impact on systems and circuit neuroscience. This paper is a major step towards that dream …

… critical period Mark Bear , Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, recalls the “eureka moment” 20 years ago … for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “Thus, it was a profound disappointment … doses as they got older, could produce lasting benefits in cognitive ability. That finding suggests that the timing and …