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… six brain regions, in a  paper published June 1 in  Nature Neuroscience .  Alzheimer's disease is a leading cause of … over 65, and leads to debilitating and devastating cognitive decline. Impaired blood-brain barrier (BBB) … hurdle — brain alterations commence decades before cognitive signs make their debut, at which point it might …

… of brain cells,” said Mriganka Sur , Newton Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory … four faculty members in MIT’s Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) and Electrical Engineering and …

… involve astrocytes,” said Sur, Newton Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory … for their lab’s research and to share with the broader neuroscience community. Each tool is meant to give scientists … Media Lab, the Departments of Bioengineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the McGovern Institute for Brain …

… cleverness to see it in ways that answer many crucial neuroscience questions. Sometimes it’s enough to put a … target of psychiatric drugs. Deeper insight For studies of cognitive abilities such as how mice learn to act on … with enough resolution and speed to capture meaningful neuroscience measurements. A key limitation to overcome, …

… and Memory explains how. “Categorization is a fundamental cognitive mechanism,” says Earl Miller , Picower Professor in … for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “It’s the way the brain learns to … Tim Buschman, Assistant Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology at …

… professorships. Troy Littleton , the Menicon Professor in Neuroscience in the departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences:   Littleton works to understand the …

… it is fully intact, has been an out-of-reach dream of neuroscience for decades, but in a new study in Science, an … the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the Institute for Medical … of three technologies to enable that and other long-sought neuroscience investigations. The research provides a “proof …

… environment,” says Mriganka Sur , the Newton Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for … the prefrontal cortex, where planning and other higher cognitive functions occur. “The surprise-encoding function of …

… in total cell number may underlie some of the sensory and cognitive declines associated with normal brain aging. … In their experiments published online in the Journal of Neuroscience they also show that they could restore a … author Elly Nedivi , a professor of biology and brain and cognitive sciences. “Rather it seems that structural …