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… known as burst suppression, which is associated with cognitive impairments after the patient wakes up. A new study … Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience and a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for …

… study senior author Li-Huei Tsai , Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and director of The Picower Institute and …

… six brain regions, in a  paper published June 1 in  Nature Neuroscience .  Alzheimer's disease is a leading cause of … over 65, and leads to debilitating and devastating cognitive decline. Impaired blood-brain barrier (BBB) … hurdle — brain alterations commence decades before cognitive signs make their debut, at which point it might …

… and Memory explains how. “Categorization is a fundamental cognitive mechanism,” says Earl Miller , Picower Professor in … for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “It’s the way the brain learns to … Tim Buschman, Assistant Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology at …

… professorships. Troy Littleton , the Menicon Professor in Neuroscience in the departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences:   Littleton works to understand the …

… 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 …

… 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 …