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Brain circuit enables split-second decisions when cues conflict

April 24, 2017

Creating therapies for Alzheimer's disease by targeting neural circuits

November 09, 2016
… therapies for Alzheimer's disease by targeting neural circuits Age-related dementia will affect 10 percent of … network activity over time, including its connections, circuits, and information processing, she says. Studies have … and then simultaneously we could also target specific circuits or brain regions, to hopefully improve cognitive …

'What Were you Thinking?'

September 20, 2021
… 2021 Research Feature 'What Were you Thinking?' How brain circuits integrate many sources of context to flexibly guide … provided an exquisite (and timely) example of how brain circuits factor context into behaviors, making them adaptive … greater flexibility in how it operates than the electrical circuits that power your house or even the chips that drive …

Petite & Profound

June 22, 2023
… evolved a method for neurons to connect and communicate in circuits and networks: releasing chemicals called … disease mutations can model how cells act and interact, circuits function and behaviors arise in health, disease and … Petite & Profound circuits C. elegans neurodegeneration epilepsy drosophila …

Scientists identify specific brain region and circuits controlling attention

November 02, 2020
… Findings Scientists identify specific brain region and circuits controlling attention The attentional control that … Scientists identify specific brain region and circuits controlling attention attention cognitive control prefrontal cortex Executive Function Neural Circuits Optogenetics Higher Level Cognition Neuromodulators …

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

June 11, 2020
… 2020 Research Findings Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors For a nematode … their eggs across a nutritive environment. The two motor circuits that control locomotion and egg-laying in this … Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors C. elegans …

Fundamental questions find advanced answers, approaches at Fall Symposium

October 18, 2019
… postdoc, is looking at the broader scale of brain-wide circuits. “If you had to have a specialist circuit for every … of a large truck,” she quipped. “You don’t have specialist circuits, you have a lot of generalist circuits especially in the cortex where the neurons in both …

Flavell earns School of Science named professorship

July 23, 2018

Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

April 28, 2025
… in the paper used multiple methods for tracing neural circuits to see whether and how cells in the VTA and the … Memory Systems Mood Disorders Anxiety Disorders Neural Circuits …

The model remodeler

March 14, 2022
… groups of synapses on each neuron; and in whole neural circuits. The potential to discover tangible physical … and neuronal electrical activity as neurons rewired circuits to support the unobstructed eye rather than the one … of synapses . When ever neurons connect, they form circuits that can relay information across the brain via …

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