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… how deep brain stimulation (DBS) relieves some of the motor symptoms patients experience. In a new study, … the FSIs. But the FSIs also receive input from the brain’s cortex. In Parkinson’s disease, where dopamine is absent and … the FSIs can instead become modulated by input from the cortex even with dopamine still absent. That allows them a …

… underlying attention attention arousal prefrontal cortex cognitive control Vincent Breton-Provencher, a postdoc … specifically looking at circuits connecting the LC to the motor and prefrontal cortices, and their involvement in …

… of and influential in the activity of neurons in the motor cortex as mice learn new movement tasks. Andre Bastos, a … on how brain rhythms govern the flow of information in the cortex and other brain regions. And directly on the other …

… allowing them to activate different parts of the motor cortex and prompt the mice to move their limbs, ears, or … the technique did not activate the neurons in the cortex, the region lying between the electrodes on the skull …

… to learn what distinguishes two subclasses of motor neurons that form synapses of characteristically … tracking how inhibitory interneurons innervate the visual cortex of mice throughout their development. By studying the … changes, or plasticity, and development of the visual cortex, she said. As she’s worked, her poodle Soma (named for …

… to treat epileptiform activity — hyperexcitability in the cortex, which increases the risk of seizures — in Alzheimer’s … (ROSMAP), a longitudinal study that has tracked memory, motor, and other age-related issues in older people since …

… the importance of different neural signals recorded in the cortex of experimental animals as they carried out cognitive … of neural rhythms the lab has documented in the prefrontal cortex during working memory appears to be a general feature … astrocytes in modulating how neurons encode learning of motor tasks. The Miller lab, too, occupied a ward of boards …

… turning on a red fluorescent protein called mCherry in the motor cortex neurons of mice as they ran on a treadmill. This …

… cognitively, but he also had significant improvements in motor function and a complete resolution of lifelong, severe … improvements in neural hyperexcitability in the visual cortex fragile X mice lost that benefit with chronic dosing …