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… to MIT DEIJ Evolution stem cells synapse function visual cortex iPSCs Teens from area high schools got the chance to … showed the high schoolers how brain tissue from the visual cortex of mice modeling the disease shows much greater …

… combine with others in other regions, such as the cortex, into an “engram complex.” Crucial to this process of … engram cells labeled green and red in the prefrontal cortex of a mouse. Image credit: Takashi Kitamura “More than …

… tracked how waves “travel” around the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during working memory tasks. Others led by … show distinct layer by layer patterns across the cortex’s six-layer structure. Postdoc Alex Major demonstrated …

… weaken plasticity synaptic plasticity optogenetics visual cortex visual system vision monocular deprivation … not. As they worked to activate plasticity in the visual cortex of mice and then track how synapses changed to make … by flashing a blue light inside the mouse’s visual cortex, instigating extra activity just like another neuron …

… brain: hippocampal long-term memory formation and visual cortex plasticity. We hypothesize that some forms of brain … during fear memory consolidation, and in the visual cortex during consolidation of orientation-specific response …

… the FSIs. But the FSIs also receive input from the brain’s cortex. In Parkinson’s disease, where dopamine is absent and … the FSIs can instead become modulated by input from the cortex even with dopamine still absent. That allows them a …

… voltage clamp recording techniques in mouse visual cortex.  Her lab was among a few to first use mouse visual cortex as a model to systematically investigate cortical …

… Sur Heller is  studying single neurons in the visual cortex of awake, attentive subjects to understand their … she is recording from both the primary visual cortex (V1) and the hippocampal CA1 region in freely-moving …

… the outer edge, which is directly analogous to the brain’s cortex. They saw that the nascent neurons in the minibrains … to track some of the neurons making their way toward the cortex over a few days, taking a new picture every 20 …

… four classes of cells by spike waveform Electrophysiology cortex … the data years ago at MIT from three regions in the cortex of animals who were performing experimental tasks that …