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… known as burst suppression, which is associated with cognitive impairments after the patient wakes up. A new study … The findings could offer anesthesiologists more refined control over a patient’s state of unconsciousness during …

… in MIT’s Departments of Biology and of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “There’s multiple types of things that … that unlike in mammals, the neurons did not compete to control the muscle but remained side by side, each … a muscle has two distinct inputs, it can sort of uniquely control those two,” Littleton said. “When the muscle is …

… Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences . Flavell lab members Nathan Cermak, … a nutritive environment. The two motor circuits that control locomotion and egg-laying in this animal had been … further confirmed the role of dopamine by taking direct control of dopamine-producing cells using optogenetics, a …

… had to be canceled. We are at the time when people in the control group would be switched to active stimulation. I’m …

… something in mind for a while was the highest level cognitive phenomenon people were studying, but that’s all … well as areas, like the prefrontal cortex, that engage in cognitive  information processing. Miller’s lab observed that …

… is widely used at varying doses for sedation, pain control, general anesthesia and as a therapy for … usually ignored can sometimes be central to understanding cognitive phenomena,” said co-corresponding author Nancy …

… behave in a healthy brain. In the article, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences doctoral student Mitch Murdock and Picower … Alzheimer’s patients or mouse models compared to healthy control samples. For example, Tsai and Murdock highlight more … help explain the divergence between healthy aging and cognitive decline, and highlight cell-type-specific molecular …

… “The use of real-time decoding and closed-loop control of neural activity will fundamentally transform our …

… in total cell number may underlie some of the sensory and cognitive declines associated with normal brain aging. … author Elly Nedivi , a professor of biology and brain and cognitive sciences. “Rather it seems that structural … adds to prior research in humans showing a potential cognitive benefit for the drug. “Our finding that fluoxetine …

… Sur , Newton Professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Research has implicated dysfunction in … Ian Wickersham, Principal Research Scientist in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the McGovern Institute for Brain …