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… inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA in neurons of the visual cortex. Doing so impaired the ability of the mice to properly … wrong. But somehow after neurons in the prefrontal cortex (responsible for reasoning about what to do) received … at Harvard showed that one of the ways that visual cortex neurons change to incorporate new visual experiences …

… chemical acetylcholine in the brain’s outer surface, or cortex, the brain exhibits relatively high-frequency, … have shown that the hippocampus communicates with the cortex during sleep as it replays representations of … the peaks or “up states” of slow waves, the prefrontal cortex (the locus of reasoning and executive function) …

… of Nedivi’s research. Nedivi models this in the visual cortex, labeling and tracking cells in lab mice exposed to … when this memory forms, it forms simultaneously in the cortex and the basolateral amygdala, where the brain forms … memories form in the hippocampus before migrating to the cortex for retrieval later. Tonegawa has also found key …

… 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 …

… When researchers knocked down a Mef2 gene in the frontal cortex of mice (blank areas), it prevented the mice from … in a subpopulation of excitatory neurons in the prefrontal cortex of resilient individuals. To study cognitive … researchers knocked out the gene for MEF2 in the frontal cortex, this blocked the mice’s ability to benefit from being …

… 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 …

… 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). …