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… begins with the connections, or “synapses,” that neurons form with each other. In her talk Picower Institute … has experiences. The research has enabled her to see how neurons try out new connections to later be discarded or cemented, and how cells appear to fleetingly form inhibitory synapses next to permanent excitatory ones perhaps …

… how the competitive interplay that arises when multiple neurons connect to the same muscle affects the development … monitor and study the frequent assembly and removal of inhibitory neural connections, or synapses, in live animals, … developed in Professor Ed Boyden lab, that engineers neurons to visually report their electrical activity by …

… University. There he learned how neural stem cells become neurons and how the cellular environment helps to determine … microRNAs to reprogram human skin cells into neurons. In his thesis work Victor developed a way to coax … pathology. In the other, he is interested in studying how inhibitory interneurons change in the aging brain. The …

… by the environment. In plasticity, the connections between neurons, or synapses, get stronger or weaker. Nedivi wanted … regulates receptors at the synapses of glutamate-producing neurons. CPG2 also happens to be the product of  a gene that … imaging to allow simultaneous and distinct imaging of inhibitory and excitatory synapses in real time in live mice. …

… molecules from immune cells. Those cytokines reach neurons in the S1DZ region of the cortex of the fetus, disrupting the development of inhibitory neurons. That in turn leads to hyperactivity of circuits …