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Whole-brain tracking in moving animals

… an elegant circuit that integrates multiple sources of sensory information to endow worms with the flexibility to … track how serotonin release and reception in networks of neurons in the worm affect behavior. …

Celebrating 20 years of discovery, Picower Institute looks ahead to continuing impact

September 28, 2022
… event memories are represented by connected ensembles of neurons called engrams. A key ingredient of Aqrabawi’s new … a symptom common across many autism spectrum disorders: sensory hypersensitivity. He’s found that it derives from … of neuron plays as a hub of cortical circuits enabling sensory processing in mice. As he spoke he traced roots of …

Neural representations of categories, rules and concepts

… K. Miller’s lab has made a series of discoveries about how neurons the brain’s prefrontal cortex (PFC) enables us to … papers. In one he and co-authors were able to identify PFC neurons that faithfully represented that categories of images … of a pictured object is transformed from basic sensory processing to abstract categorization as it flows …

Spring break tours give high schoolers a chance to see science up close

March 31, 2023
… Brady Weissbourd describes an experiment with jellyfish neurons to an audience of students from Everett and Lawrence … instance, he’s done experiments where he’s killed all the neurons needed for a jellyfish to execute a particular … with Fragile X syndrome can experience hypersensitivity to sensory stimulation, he said, and could point to ways to …

‘Rewiring’ cortical circuits

… plasticity becomes manifest at the connection between two neurons called a synapse and that most of the synapses neurons form to receive input from others reside on their … but is a lifelong process.  In 2006 they found that while sensory areas of the brain show much greater degrees of …
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