… and Memory Email: wlawson@mit.edu Phone: 617-452-3342 Development Asha Bhakar, PhD Director of Development The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory …
… Plasticity shapes the brain during development, and mechanisms of plasticity continue into … studies plasticity in the cerebral cortex during development, and plasticity during behavior that is manifest …
… innervate the visual cortex of mice throughout their development. By studying the maturation of inhibition, the … in the experience-dependent changes, or plasticity, and development of the visual cortex, she said. As she’s worked, …
… brain, including a link between maternal infection and the development of autism-like social deficits in offspring. By … Why is infection during pregnancy associated with the development of autism in the child? Over several years the … molecule reaches receptors in the fetal brain. Cortical development in the fetus becomes disrupted and is …