Plasticity and ‘metaplasticity’ in amblyopia … lab definitively demonstrated in rats that LTD was the molecular mechanism by which connections supporting a …
Visual Recognition Memory … evidence that it is produced by a common memory-making molecular mechanism called long-term potentiation. Above: A …
IGF1 … the molecule IGF1 corrects functional, structural, and molecular mechanisms downstream of MeCP2 and improves mouse …
CyCLoPs … to its target receptor in a cell, the ensuing chain of molecular events produces an imageable glow. Specifically, …
Li-Huei Tsai elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences April 22, 2021 … laboratory focuses on advancing understanding of the molecular-, circuit- and systems-level mechanisms underlying …
Life and death factors for neurons … such factors. In 2015, after identifying a potential molecular pathway that appeared to contribute to the death of …
Fruit fly models of human disease … knocked out in fruit flies. Receptors for a key form of molecular signaling from the presynaptic side called Wnt …
Epigenetic loss and rescue of memory recall … In a landmark paper in 2007, the lab identified a molecular mechanism when they inhibit HDAC enzymes that …
Four MIT faculty elected 2016 AAAS Fellows November 21, 2016 … neuroscience, particularly for defining novel cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying activity-dependent synaptic …
