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… using two-photon microscopy to image synapses in the live brain multiphoton microscopy synapse synaptic plasticity In … using two-photon microscopy to image synapses in the live brain The brain’s ability to learn comes from “plasticity,” … that allows high resolution visualization of synapses deep in scattering tissue, such as the brain, the required …

… 2021 Picower People Picower scientists shared research on brain waves, new technologies, brain plasticity and … with postdoc Elie Adam on a presentation explaining how deep brain stimulation treats Parkinson’s disease by restoring waves of …

… doing full-time research in the Departments of Biology or Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), or the Center for Brains, … astrocytes might have in the Parkinson’s Disease treatment deep brain stimulation.  When it came time to re-apply to graduate …

… more than 40 talks and posters on topics ranging from brain circuits underlying compulsive drinking, to hippocampus … for hours, ringed by a crowds four or five people deep. Chen Sun, a graduate student in Susumu Tonegawa’s lab … a particular circuit between the prefrontal cortex and a deep region called the periaqueductal gray appears key to …

… June 12, 2024 Research Feature Emerging evidence shows how brain waves help to knit our internal thoughts and external … increases in synchrony in very slow wave frequencies (deep red color) between the thalamus and various cortical … then under anesthesia, animals received sound and touch stimulation. As researchers have shown for decades, a region …

… beta The ten neuroscientists who spoke at MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative symposium, “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration” Sept. 22 delved deep into the complexities of devastating brain diseases such … mechanisms are not fully understood, Chan said, but the stimulation appears to restore healthier gene expression and …

… or in parent-to-parent relationships, the key is to ask deep enough questions and to invest enough time and energy to … research on how deprivation amid poverty affects the brain. Using an experimental protocol in which mice are … for scientists, physicians and social workers to engage in deep, energetic efforts to understand the underlying …

… function Figuring out how hundreds of different kinds of brain cells develop from their unique expression of thousands … promises to not only advance understanding of how the brain works in health, but also what goes wrong in disease. A … their differences. The team began with an unusually deep characterization of how the two cell types differ in …

… build up and clump together to form plaques in the brain, creating a cascade effect that ultimately leads to … cognitive dysfunction. Small-scale human studies using deep-brain stimulation have also shown promising results in improving …