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… at Picower April 4 hippocampus striatum oscillations cognitive neuroscience neural systems psychopathologies … clear: They endow us with some of our most prized cognitive abilities, and when they falter, they leave us with … in which beta waves representing our goals and priorities control the representation of sensory information by gamma …

… Foundation for project on neural circuits for anxiety control. amygdala valence therapies On Tuesday, the Brain and … Career Development Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the Picower Institute for … project “Identifying Unique Neural Circuits for Anxiety Control.” The Klerman and Freedman Prizes are granted to …

… in living animals wherever in the brain they want (spatial control) and with the timing of their choosing (temporal control). In a mouse's primary visual cortex, astrocytes … Media Lab, the Departments of Bioengineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the McGovern Institute for Brain …

… from more than 100 other brain regions and sophisticated control of where and when it sends out norepinephrine (NE), … for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. “What was formerly considered a … that that the LC may integrate sensory inputs and internal cognitive states from across the brain to precisely exert its …

… underlying attention attention arousal prefrontal cortex cognitive control Vincent Breton-Provencher, a postdoc in the lab of … cortices, and their involvement in sustained attention and cognitive flexibility. His experiments will seek to determine …

… Neuroscience in MIT’s Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “How they accumulate at active zones was …

… our memories and associate them with meaning? How do we control our minds, for instance to pay attention? How do we … (All Images by Rose Lincoln). To understand the basis of cognitive flexibility, Yale Professor Jessica Cardin, a … onslaught of sensory inputs as well as changes in your cognitive and behavioral context.” In her research, for …

… regions in animals, the team’s new study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience provides a unifying view of how brain … oscillating patterns of the activity of brain cells, may control the flow of information throughout the cortex. “When … alpha and beta alternately inhibit, or release, gamma to control the encoding of information – a form of top-down …

… map of how the animal’s nervous system is organized to control behavior,” said senior author Steven Flavell , Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “It shows how the many defined nodes that … insights, more fully mapping out the neural circuits that control each of the animal’s behaviors. These new findings …