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… researchers can identify functional regions by engineering neurons to flash when they become electrically active (and … studies of structural and functional coupling in other sensory and non-sensory cortical areas in the brains of mice and other animal …

… bands associated with encoding, or inhibiting encoding, of sensory information across the cortex cortex visual cortex … By making and analyzing measurements of thousands of neurons and surrounding electric fields in three cortical … encoding of information – a form of top-down control of sensory activity. Meanwhile, they hypothesize that the …

… much less is visible in the cortex of a mouse treated with sensory gamma stimulation (right) than in a mouse left … and labeling, respectively. Memory improvement The brain’s neurons generate electrical signals that synchronize to form … demonstrated here is that we can use a totally different sensory modality to induce gamma oscillations in the brain. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… event memories are represented by connected ensembles of neurons called engrams. A key ingredient of Aqrabawi’s new … a symptom common across many autism spectrum disorders: sensory hypersensitivity. He’s found that it derives from … of neuron plays as a hub of cortical circuits enabling sensory processing in mice. As he spoke he traced roots of …

… cortex, the brain’s outer layers where circuits of neurons enable functions ranging from sensory processing to cognition. These circuits can …

… a gap in understanding how ketamine’s impact on individual neurons leads to pervasive and profound changes in brain … depression anesthesia ketamine Brain Rhythms inhibitory neurons cortex … brain’s cortex—the outer layer where key functions such as sensory processing and cognition take place. Blocking the …

… and represent the cohesive coordination of ensembles of neurons, they are very useful for exploring the brain. “We … our goals and priorities control the representation of sensory information by gamma waves, which gives us the … Symposium, describing how persistent gamma rhythms in non-sensory, fast-spiking cells in the brain region responsible …