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CPG15 (“Neuritin”)

… allowing us to adapt to and learn from experience. This “plasticity” requires not only the flexibility to remove or … with consequential roles in activity-dependent neural plasticity. In several papers since, she has discovered …

Dendrites: Molecules, Structure, and Function

… States https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46 Symposia Neural Plasticity Synapse Mapping Neural Circuits Public Event To …

Study shows how specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk

January 09, 2019

Epigenetic loss and rescue of memory recall

… down the expression of genes needed for promoting neural “plasticity,” the property needed to form new circuit … regulated neuronal expression of genes supporting synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory. HDAC2 was the target of the …

‘Skyrocketing’ research by investing in young researchers

June 23, 2020

Picower at Neuroscience 2018

… in the basolateral amygdala gate valence-specific plasticity underlying associative learning *J. M. OLSON 1 , … Inst. Technol., Cambridge, MA Session 143 Striate Cortex: Plasticity Presentation 143.15 / FF1 Distinct requirements … 4 NMDA receptors in experience-dependent visual cortical plasticity *M.-F. FONG 1 , P. S. FINNIE 1 , T. KIM 1 , A. …

Engrams emerging as the basic unit of memory

January 02, 2020

… new circuit connections, via processes known as “synaptic plasticity” and “dendritic spine formation.” Importantly, … that both increased intrinsic excitability and synaptic plasticity work hand in hand to form engrams and that these …

New England Neuro Lecture Series: Tara Moore, PhD, Boston University

… States https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46 Seminars Neural Plasticity Public Event A lecture series organized by Picower …

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Adam Kepecs, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis

… States https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46 Colloquium Neural Plasticity Public Event Talk title and abstract to come. …

Playing chess, not checkers: Neurons dynamically control their myelin patterns

December 18, 2020

… Laboratory, Harvard University. To investigate myelin plasticity, the researchers used mouse models where specific … findings, the researchers can now investigate how myelin plasticity plays a role in other contexts, including disease. …