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… birth to adulthood in areas such as brain function, heart development, and sleep quality. Above: Scientist speakers … activity—“gamma” brain waves of 40Hz—can improve brain development and function. The lab of the center’s Director … whether the healthy cellular response can affect brain development in a fetus while a mother is pregnant. In ongoing …
… then revive larval fruit flies to measure the day-by-day development of these different synapses. Last year, … to image advanced 3D cell cultures modeling early brain development in Rett syndrome. They showed that newborn …
… factors, such as maternal infection during fetal development, also play a role. Given the complexities, … strategy, the study demonstrated ways to rescue synapse development. Now Littleton’s lab has embarked on another … studies revealing how MeCP2 mutations disrupt brain development. A 2017 study found that mutations can lead to …
… and Memory found axonal segments can break apart during development and the connections, or synapses, that they form … the extracellular matrix supports axon and neural circuit development. MIT Biology graduate student Ellen Guss, who … to “retract” many synapses at a late stage of larval development. Proteins on the muscle side of the synaptic …
