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Mechanisms and therapeutics for Rett Syndrome

… the proteins crucial for allowing neural connections, or synapses, to change with experience (a property called … for computations received too little excitatory and inhibitory drive from others, a circumstance they were able …

MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Betty Hong, PhD, Caltech

How the brain selectively remembers new places

December 25, 2017

… of dopamine helps to boost CA3’s ability to strengthen synapses and form a memory of the new location. They found … virus (AAV)-mediated expressions of light-sensitive inhibitory opsin, archaerhodopsin (Arch). The blue staining …

Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models

December 09, 2019

… rhythms. Both involve an interplay between excitatory and inhibitory neurons but differ on which type leads the … proximity to electrical couplings between neurons called synapses, or because of how their activity is otherwise …