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Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with David Freedman, PhD, University of Chicago

… United States https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46 Colloquium Visual System Public Event Colloquium on the Brain and … and motor brain regions including the posterior parietal cortex, prefrontal cortex, and superior colliculus. The talk … and memory. His lab investigates how encoding of basic visual features (like edges, contrast, motion, and color) in …

Special Seminar with Miguel Castelo-Branco, PhD

… Special Events Neural Plasticity Public Event Visual plasticity in the developing and adult brain is still a highly debated phenomenon. Here we address visual reorganization in genetically determined human models … simultaneous recordings in the retina, thalamus and visual cortex in mammals and showed distinct origins of oscillations …

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

March 31, 2023

… trips to MIT DEIJ Evolution stem cells synapse function visual cortex iPSCs Teens from area high schools got the chance to … X. He showed the high schoolers how brain tissue from the visual cortex of mice modeling the disease shows much greater …

CPG15 (“Neuritin”)

… development protected neural progenitor cells in the cortex from dying. In 2011 the team went on to discover that … to stretches of time in the light, when they could gain visual experience, and the dark, where there was no visual experience. Using special microscopes to watch …

Effects of general anesthetics on the brain

… by making measurements in two different regions of the cortex in animals during induction of propofol anesthesia, … activity between the thalamus and medial prefrontal cortex become disrupted by propofol. Alpha oscillations … brain communication between the thalamus and the cortex in a variety of frequency bands, they discovered that …

Picower at Neuroscience 2019

… Spectrum Disorders 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Presentation 352.08 Visual recognition memory as a translational biomarker of … MA; 8 Dept Neurol, Mass Genl Hosp, Boston, MA Session 490 Visual Learning, Memory, and Categorization 10:00 AM - 11:00 … of visual recognition memory in the mouse primary visual cortex *T. KIM 1 , M. T. HARNETT 2 , M. F. BEAR 1 ; 1 Picower …

Making waves for health

March 01, 2018

… focused on the hippocampus, overlying regions like the cortex remained unaffected. This overcomes a drawback of … to affect behavior: By moving the signal around the motor cortex, they compelled mice to move different body parts. … in Nature showed that entraining the gamma rhythm in the visual cortex coordinated beneficial activity, for instance …

Elly Nedivi

… Synapse Mapping Neural Signal Processing Brain Imaging Visual System Neuro Genomics and Proteomics Neural Plasticity … disassembly plasticity genes CPG15 Neuritin CPG2 SYNE1 visual system In vivo cellular imaging inhibitory circuits … and reconstructed the dendritic trees of neurons in visual cortex of thy1-GFP transgenic mice through surgically …

Genes & plasticity in memory

… via two-photon microscopy as mice gained experience with visual stimuli. This pioneering study demonstrated a new … study showed that a long circuit connecting the entorhinal cortex, through several regions of the hippocampus and back …

Picower Fellows alumni

… of acetylcholine (ACh) neuromodulatory system in visual stimulation-induced gamma oscillations using a variety … can improve the therapeutic potential of non-invasive visual gamma rhythm stimulation for Alzheimer’s disease. … human stem cellderived neurons in the mouse visual cortex. Sayak Bhattacharya Earl Miller Bhattacharya …