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… more than 40 talks and posters on topics ranging from brain circuits underlying compulsive drinking, to hippocampus … for hours, ringed by a crowds four or five people deep. Chen Sun, a graduate student in Susumu Tonegawa’s lab … a particular circuit between the prefrontal cortex and a deep region called the periaqueductal gray appears key to …

… Session P261 Parkinson's Disease: Subthalamic Nucleus and Deep Brain Stimulation 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Presentation P261.06 Deep brain …

… beta The ten neuroscientists who spoke at MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative symposium, “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration” Sept. 22 delved deep into the complexities of devastating brain diseases such … mechanisms are not fully understood, Chan said, but the stimulation appears to restore healthier gene expression and …

… or in parent-to-parent relationships, the key is to ask deep enough questions and to invest enough time and energy to … research on how deprivation amid poverty affects the brain. Using an experimental protocol in which mice are … for scientists, physicians and social workers to engage in deep, energetic efforts to understand the underlying …

… build up and clump together to form plaques in the brain, creating a cascade effect that ultimately leads to … cognitive dysfunction. Small-scale human studies using deep-brain stimulation have also shown promising results in improving …

… function Figuring out how hundreds of different kinds of brain cells develop from their unique expression of thousands … promises to not only advance understanding of how the brain works in health, but also what goes wrong in disease. A … their differences. The team began with an unusually deep characterization of how the two cell types differ in …

… , E. Y. KIMCHI 3 , C. M. VANDER WEELE 2 , K. M. TYE 2 ; 2 Brain and Cognitive Sci., 1 MIT, Cambridge, MA; 3 Dept. of … and Synchrony Presentation 445.06 Central thalamic deep brain stimulation enhances dominant spiking activity profiles of …