… underlie high-level cognitive functions. With further development and testing, similar devices might one day be … to implement it in their system,” says Garwood, who led development of the device as a graduate student in Anikeeva’s … the researchers say, are an important step toward the development of tools to modulate and manipulate neuronal …
… and Memory found axonal segments can break apart during development and the connections, or synapses, that they form … the extracellular matrix supports axon and neural circuit development. MIT Biology graduate student Ellen Guss, who … to “retract” many synapses at a late stage of larval development. Proteins on the muscle side of the synaptic …
… an animal’s eye is blocked during a critical period of development, the brain shifts neural connections called … it is a disorder of aberrant and even abnormally prolonged development: loss of MeCP2 likely reduces molecules that the brain requires for normal development, but adding back these molecules could enable the …