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Studies help explain link between autism, severe infection during pregnancy

September 13, 2017

Visual Recognition Memory

… of Picower Professor Mark Bear have shown that the visual cortex is not just sorting out shapes, colors and motion, but … was trying to assay visual responses in the visual cortex of mice (V1) when he observed something surprising. … mouse brain section shows green highlighting in the visual cortex In a paper in 2015, the lab showed how SRP reveals the …

Alzheimer’s erodes brain cells’ control of gene expression, undermining function, cognition

September 02, 2025

Antidepressant restores youthful flexibility to aging inhibitory neurons in mice

August 20, 2018

… and memory show that inhibitory interneurons in the visual cortex of mice remain just as abundant during aging, but … acuity. In this study, while they focused on the visual cortex, the plasticity they measured is believed to be … that underlies visual recognition memory in the visual cortex, where neurons respond more potently to stimuli they …

As you look around, mental images bounce between right and left brain

February 08, 2021

… as it shifts around in our visual system vision prefrontal cortex working memory … recruits a new group of neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the opposite brain hemisphere to store the memory. … the activity of hundreds of neurons in the prefrontal cortex of both brain hemispheres as animals played a game. …

40 Hz vibrations reduce Alzheimer’s pathology, symptoms in mouse models

May 18, 2023

… damage, a new study shows neurodegeneration dementia motor cortex cerebral cortex 40Hz … in two areas of the brain: the primary somatosensory cortex (SSp), where tactile sensations are processed, and the …

Special Seminar with Yoshiyuki Kubota, PhD, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan

… Japan Network plastic changes in the primary motor cortex as the basis of a new motor skill acquisition … Public Event The neuronal circuitry in the motor cortex should be optimally organized to achieve skillful … and induces reorganization of neuronal wiring in the motor cortex that involves synaptogenesis as indicated by new spine …

Engrams: mapping and manipulating memories

… takes place in cortical regions like the prefrontal cortex. In 2017 the Tonegawa lab applied memory engram, … the hippocampus but also the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex. Contrary to the standard model the Tonegawa lab … hippocampus and the amygdala, the engram in the prefrontal cortex could not be reactivated immediately for natural …

Importance to memory of replay and sleep

… replay during sleep: it coordinates with the visual cortex so that the two regions replay the same memories … in a figure eight maze show similar activity in the visual cortex (CTX) as in the hippocampus (HP). By 2006, though, …

Scientists identify specific brain region and circuits controlling attention

November 02, 2020

… impulse control via two distinct connections to prefrontal cortex attention cognitive control prefrontal cortex … both by targeting two distinct areas of the prefrontal cortex. “Our results demonstrate a fundamental causal role of …