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… Executive Function Glia Neuromodulators cerebral cortex plasticity development circuits attention autism … plasticity and dynamics of circuits in the cerebral cortex of the brain. The developing brain requires a genetic … rules of synaptic and circuit plasticity in the developing cortex, and dynamics of activity in the adult cortex during …

… Processing Public Event Abstract:   The primate prefrontal cortex shares a dense network of reciprocal anatomical … and its relevance to computations performed by prefrontal cortex.  Work in our lab has been using electrode arrays in prefrontal cortex and interconnected cortical areas to record the …

… constituents (in distinct colors) within the orbitofrontal cortex of a brain donor with Alzheimer’s disease. Exploring … They focused most of their analysis in the orbitofrontal cortex within each hemisphere. One of the many observations … A comparison of what can be seen in the orbitofrontal cortex of control and Alzheimer’s brain samples: Note in …

… develop new therapeutic approach amblyopia vision visual cortex visual system LTD RPB Walt and Lilly Disney Award will … In decades of investigating the development of visual cortex, Bear’s lab has discovered fundamental mechanisms of … of normal vision, the connections from that eye to visual cortex undergo a process called “long-term depression” (LTD). …

… called the thalamus forge synapses with neurons in the cortex to regulate the response to regularly repeated, and … to see it in action across dendrites in a wide area of the cortex. Masanori Murayama of the RIKEN Center for Brain … by overlapping groups of neurons in the retrosplenial cortex, but even become linked at the level of dendrites. She …

… 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. … showed that entraining the gamma rhythm in the visual cortex coordinated beneficial activity, for instance …

… by coordinating ensembles of cells, or neurons, in the cortex with timely bursts of activity at the frequencies of … beta waves originate from deeper layers of the prefrontal cortex, while gamma waves originate in more superficial … as neuroscientists had previously observed in the visual cortex. “This model brings together the maintenance and …

… by imaging layers of neurons in the somatosensory cortex of mice, after expanding the tissue volume fourfold. … compare the density of synapses in different parts of the cortex. Using this technique, it is possible to analyze … “We counted clusters of postsynaptic markers across the cortex, and we saw differences in synaptic density in …