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… for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Showing that this plasticity, … at Stanford University at the time, to literally see and control the electrical activity of the circuit and to … neurons to express a protein that enables optogenetic control (cyan) and pyramidal neurons to express a genetically …

… on new studies. Can the stimulation prevent the onset of cognitive impairment? Can it benefit patients with … of his patients. In this way he can more precisely control drug dosing so that patients experience the benefits … dysfunction. Understanding how anesthesia and arousal control work on a systems neuroscience level opens up many …

… two donors: one with Alzheimer’s and a non-Alzheimer’s control. Observing anything and everything within the human … the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the Institute for Medical … loss of neurons in the disease sample compared to the control. From there, they followed their curiosity—as the …

… for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and an investigator of the Howard Hughes … neuromodulators released from different neuronal sources control the diverse internal states that animals exhibit …

… also once they learned how the circuit operated, they took control of the inhibitory cells to directly manipulate how … Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and senior author of the new study in the … of laser light in their two-photon microscope. Taking control of the cells using a technology called “optogenetics” …

… experiments, led by Mitch Murdock when he was a Brain and Cognitive Sciences doctoral student at MIT, showing that when …