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Livestreaming the Brain

March 15, 2024

MIT Colloquium on Brain and Cognition with Vanessa Ruta

The machinery of neural communication

… with a downstream (“postsynaptic”) partner is a peak of voltage called an action potential that causes calcium ions … independently. In 2018, Littleton’s lab used innovative imaging methods to find that some active zones develop to …

Paper: To understand cognition—and its dysfunction—neuroscientists must learn its rhythms

April 17, 2024

… generated by the activity of a neuron can influence the voltage of neighboring neurons, creating an alignment among …

Colloquium with Huizhong Tao, PhD, University of Southern California

… her own lab in USC, she developed in vivo whole-cell voltage clamp recording techniques in mouse visual cortex. …

Anesthesia doesn't simply turn off the brain, it changes its rhythms

April 27, 2021

… neurons that they measured chattering away with spikes of voltage 7-10 times a second during wakefulness routinely …

From Molecules to Memory

December 20, 2024

… continue the line of communication through activation of voltage-gated channels that initiate action potentials. When …

Linlin Fan

Ed Boyden

Cutting Edge Approaches to Studying the Aging Brain

… functional characterization of missense variants of voltage-gated calcium channel CaV2.1 (CACNA1A) 3 Kendyll … multi-color structural and functional in-vivo 2-photon imaging 4 Diane Chan Tsai Lab Long-term effects of induced … Lab A scalable tissue-hydrogel platform for multi-scale imaging and phenotyping of the human brain 16 Sebastian …