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… inhibitory synapses inhibitory circuits inhibitory neurons LTD LTP … the natural noisiness of individual neurons or arbitrary sensory stimuli the world can produce. “How does the brain … inevitable internal neural noise and at least small sensory input differences. Finally, the team is considering …

… they needed to know could be observed in the anatomy of neurons, synapses, circuits and regions, says Picower … readout from working memory, for instance when the stored sensory information is needed for cognition. Beta rhythms, … be expected. The superficial layers carry “feedforward” sensory information from the outside world and contain …

… transfers a memory of it by re-encoding it among neurons in the opposite brain hemisphere. The finding, … of very low and higher frequency rhythms allows sensory information (i.e. representations of what the animal … range inhibits that encoding, acting as a sort of gate on sensory information processing. “This is another form of …

… on different frequencies of brain rhythms synchronizing neurons in distinct layers of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), … a study showing that gamma waves perked up in power when sensory (neuroscientists call it “bottom-up”) information was … that few groups have applied in cognitive, rather than sensory, areas of the cortex. Bastos realized that if he made …

… and chaos. It’s got to be excitable enough for its neurons to influence one another, but if it gets too … drug that binds to GABA receptors in the brain, inhibiting neurons that have those receptors. Other anesthesia drugs act … were able to quantify how the brain responds to sensory inputs, such as sounds, or to spontaneous …

… a method dubbed “ GENUS ” for Gamma ENtrainment Using Sensory stimuli, strengthens the rhythm across the brain and … Pathological amyloid and tau protein buildups decline, neurons and their circuit connections are protected from … MIT, he is channeling that passion into understanding how sensory stimulation can entrain oscillations. “That’s what …

… the entire connectome, or wiring diagram, among its 302 neurons has been fully mapped and its genes are readily … employing neuromodulators, integrate inputs such as sensory information and internal states to produce flexible … a model that can predict how a majority of the worm’s neurons encode and represent its behaviors, and found that …

… at whole-brain scale, during development and after Tsai's sensory Alzheimer's treatment. Young-Gyun Park presented a … and Susumu Tonegawa labs to track down the ensemble of neurons that form a contextual memory, or “engram,” even … insights into how cortical circuits and cells represent sensory information and use it to guide movement and …