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… (EEG). “If you do it this way, you have better control of nociception and you can get the same amount of … Science and a professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Harvard Medical School. “Patients wake … are profoundly unconscious with less good antinociceptive control,” he said. “If the anesthesiologist is not monitoring …

… faculty liaison, and Professor Jim DiCarlo, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department Head, to solve the problem. … electrical signals of neurons as animals perform various cognitive tasks. In particular he’s been looking at how … deeper layers appear to carry the brain’s expectations and control whether it encodes new sensory information in …

… Tye, an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and a member of the Picower … prefrontal cortex is thought to be important for higher cognitive processes,” Tye says. “So if I am walking down the … should make every effort to understand how several regions control a complex behavior, according to Rony Paz, an …

… long been thought to be important for attention and higher cognitive functions (planning, prioritizing, decision-making … says Kay Tye, an MIT associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and a member of MIT’s Picower Institute … which is the seat of conscious thought and other complex cognitive behavior, is to route information to different …

… neuroscience, machine learning, neurophysiology and control theory with the aim of building closed-loop … Director Li-Huei Tsai in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Pinals will investigate the mechanistic …

… and Memory and the Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, said the findings could increase … presence of a glutamate receptor (red). Using neurons that control muscles in the Drosophila fruit fly, the study will … these principles as fundamental elements of how neurons control synaptic growth and development,” he said. “Depending …

… mechanisms. More fundamental than the willful exertion of cognitive control over attention, the model the team developed … for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at MIT. “The brain is noisy, there …

… of these neurons contributes to patients’ loss of motor control, which is one of the major hallmarks of the disease. … , an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of The Picower Institute for … called the basal ganglia, which are responsible for control of movement and also play roles in other behaviors, …

… The scientists made their findings in neurons that control muscles in Drosophila fruit flies. These cells are … Professor in MIT’s Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, which studies how neurons regulate this … endow each neuron with fine degrees of communication control. “What this offers the nervous system is that you can …

… efforts to understand how the prefrontal cortex governs cognitive functions like working memory and selective … monitor patient EEG readings to help anesthesiologists control dosing so patients can stay properly anesthetized … sensory cortices. Miller continues to explore how other cognitive functions like working memory are also implemented …