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… in MIT’s Departments of Biology and of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “There’s multiple types of things that … that unlike in mammals, the neurons did not compete to control the muscle but remained side by side, each … a muscle has two distinct inputs, it can sort of uniquely control those two,” Littleton said. “When the muscle is …

… something in mind for a while was the highest level cognitive phenomenon people were studying, but that’s all … well as areas, like the prefrontal cortex, that engage in cognitive  information processing. Miller’s lab observed that …

… particular focus on brain networks important to memory and cognitive control. Current projects include using novel approaches …

… behave in a healthy brain. In the article, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences doctoral student Mitch Murdock and Picower … Alzheimer’s patients or mouse models compared to healthy control samples. For example, Tsai and Murdock highlight more … help explain the divergence between healthy aging and cognitive decline, and highlight cell-type-specific molecular …

… “The use of real-time decoding and closed-loop control of neural activity will fundamentally transform our …

… Sur , Newton Professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Research has implicated dysfunction in … Ian Wickersham, Principal Research Scientist in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the McGovern Institute for Brain …

… in total cell number may underlie some of the sensory and cognitive declines associated with normal brain aging. … author Elly Nedivi , a professor of biology and brain and cognitive sciences. “Rather it seems that structural … adds to prior research in humans showing a potential cognitive benefit for the drug. “Our finding that fluoxetine …