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… dynamics in primate prefrontal networks: relevance to cognitive control and schizophrenia 2018-09-06T16:00:00-0400 … in prefrontal networks, potentially helping to explain cognitive deficits in diseases such as schizophrenia that are …

… Earl Miller wins George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience October 15, 2018 Picower People Miller will deliver lecture in San Francisco in March cognitive neuroscience oscillations working memory When MIT … sketchpad of consciousness” in which people can hold and control new information, such as the list of specials at a …

… thermoregulation, fluid/ionic balance, hunger/satiety control and seasonal reproduction. We employ … responsible for cold tolerance and fluid ionic balance control in mammalian hibernators. Our recent work shed light …

… Zoom:   https://mit.zoom.us/j/91469352101 Organization and Control of Hippocampal Circuits   When animals are in an … be largely disengaged from the present setting to enable cognitive mechanisms such as memory consolidation and … during non-locomotor behavior, extending the repertoire of cognitive processes beyond the classical “off-line” …

… Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience November 1, 2016 Awards Neuroscientist … Learning and Memory  and the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, received the  Goldman-Rakic Prize for … more detailed, mechanistic accounts of how executive control is implemented in the brain and its dysfunction in …

… for the trafficking of the glutamate receptors, but also control the gating of the receptor channel. The other family … synaptic proteins in glutamate receptor trafficking TARPs control of AMPA receptor gating Activity dependent …

… turn within a specific brain region associated with motor control. This early, local difference in neural activity …

… target specific neurons in live animals to take control of their electrical activity (“optogenetics”), and … Professor of Applied Biology in MIT’s Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department and one of eight MIT professors …

… study: “The brainstem is one of the body’s most important control centers. Mark’s algorithms are a significant … us new access to vital physiological functions such as control of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, … Engineering and Science and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He is also an anesthesiologist at …