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Sprint then stop? Brain is wired for the math to make it happen

July 28, 2022
… connections, or synapses, during the development of the visual system in young mice. Read more Research Article MIT imaging … cutting-edge imaging technologies, a new microscope system could enable unprecedentedly deep and precise …

Mapping the brain at high resolution

January 17, 2019
… of the most common excitatory neurons found in the nervous system. To locate synapses, or connections, between these … can’t answer with classical technologies,” he says. The system could also have applications beyond neuroscience, … to maximize signal to noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage Read more Research Article …

Matt Wilson on Intelligence research at MIT

July 12, 2018
… of machine learning and AI algorithms, for instance in visual object recognition. That involves sophisticated … by the kind of multiple layered networks found in the visual system. The future of AI is one in which we understand how …

New findings reveal how neurons build and maintain their capacity to communicate

July 20, 2022
… to send messages across circuit connections The nervous system works because neurons communicate across connections … doctoral thesis work in Littleton’s lab. Using the model system of fruit fly motor neurons, she employed a wide …

Review: Evidence expanding that 40Hz gamma stimulation promotes brain health

March 03, 2025
… instance, the lab reported in Nature that 40Hz audio and visual stimulation induced interneurons in mice to increase … from brain tissue via the brain’s glymphatic “plumbing” system. Above: Picower Professor Li-Huei Tsai delivers a … 100 people, researchers in Scotland in 2023 used audio and visual gamma stimulation (at 37.5 Hz) to improve memory …

Innovations giving neuroscientists exciting new ways to gain insights, symposium speakers say

October 25, 2018
… volumes in live animals. She’s used the “Bessel beam” system to simultaneously image all the dendrites and synapses of a neuron (in 3D) in the visual cortex to watch how it responds to specific sensory … work, he said, is developing a real-time, closed loop system that can regulate dosing in response to EEG readings. …

Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences

May 01, 2019
… to maximize signal to noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage Read more Research Article … of Alzheimer’s protein via the brain’s glymphatic system, new study suggests. Read more Research Article …

Research quantifying “nociception” could help improve management of surgical pain

September 23, 2024

Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase

May 12, 2025
… Engineering in The Picower Institute, on building such a system.In a recent clinical trial with colleagues in Japan, …

Brain waves reflect different types of learning

October 11, 2017
… gaze one direction or another in response to different visual patterns, they only improved their performance in … implicit learning,” he explains. “Because the one learning system is down, you have to rely on another one.” Earlier … across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell …

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