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Mriganka Sur

… and Cognitive Sciences. Autism Spectrum Disorders Neural Plasticity Neural Circuits Visual System Brain Imaging Early … Executive Function Glia Neuromodulators cerebral cortex plasticity development circuits attention autism spectrum … brain activity, and uses them to study the development, plasticity and dynamics of circuits in the cerebral cortex of …

Troy Littleton

… MIT Department of Biology in 2000. Synapse Mapping Neural Plasticity Genetic Engineering Autism Spectrum Disorders … to alter presynaptic function and synaptic plasticity. We use the Drosophila NMJ as a model synapse to … active zone release properties can change during synaptic plasticity. It is likely that evoked and spontaneous active …

Study finds ‘volume dial’ for turning neural communication up or down

May 06, 2020
… synapses synapse function synaptic transmission synaptic plasticity drosophila … activity in a circuit, a property called “synaptic plasticity.” Mónica C. Quiñones-Frías describes key … manner and can act as a switch for short term synaptic plasticity,” Quiñones-Frías said. Research scientist Yulia …

Nedivi named to new professorship

February 07, 2019
… the cellular mechanisms that underlie activity-dependent plasticity in the developing and adult brain through studies … the proteins they encode. Her work to identify “candidate plasticity genes” has yielded many insights, including …

Mechanisms and therapeutics for Rett Syndrome

… or synapses, to change with experience (a property called “plasticity”), the lab of Mriganka Sur, Newton Professor of … last year. The lab discovered the role of IGF1 in neural plasticity in 2006 when they showed that it critically … left open (a dramatic phenomenon called ocular dominance plasticity). In 2009 they revealed that IGF1 was also …

CPG2

… to change and adapt with experience (a property known as plasticity) can also be sources of vulnerability to disease … called CPG2, encoded by the gene SYNE1, critically enables plasticity during health but significantly increases … postdoc to find genes and molecules that implement neural plasticity. Ever since, her Picower Institute lab has been …

Morgan Sheng

… mental illnesses. Parkinson's disease Glia synaptic plasticity neurodegeneration therapeutics psychiatric … on the molecular cellular biology of synapses and synaptic plasticity, and pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegenerative … in the postsynaptic membrane that regulate the remarkable plasticity of neuronal connections. At Genentech he built and …
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