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… environment,” says Mriganka Sur , the Newton Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for … the prefrontal cortex, where planning and other higher cognitive functions occur. “The surprise-encoding function of …

… between the cells. “There is a global effort in neuroscience to identify all the different types of neurons … study senior author Troy Littleton , Menicon Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “That information can be used as a …

… in total cell number may underlie some of the sensory and cognitive declines associated with normal brain aging. … In their experiments published online in the Journal of Neuroscience they also show that they could restore a … author Elly Nedivi , a professor of biology and brain and cognitive sciences. “Rather it seems that structural …

… MEF2 activation of these genes can confer resilience to cognitive impairment in the brains of people with Tau … Parkinson’s disease,” says Stuart Lipton, a professor of neuroscience at Scripps Research, who was not involved in the … dementia, HIV-induced dementia, and diabetes-linked cognitive impairment. “It’s very hard to say precisely which …

… and reliable,” said Mriganka Sur , Newton Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and senior author of the new study in the Journal of Neuroscience. “The same neurons should be firing in the same …

… Now, in a paper published in the journal  Nature Neuroscience , researchers at the Picower Institute for … Tye, an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and a member of the Picower … prefrontal cortex is thought to be important for higher cognitive processes,” Tye says. “So if I am walking down the …

… for a reason,” said Earl Miller, Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and co-senior author of the paper … Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Center for Integrative Neuroscience provided funding for the study. 44 220 Small …