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Symposium speaks to the many powers of brain rhythms

Monday, Apr 09
… team’s latest findings about how non-invasively entraining gamma rhythms in the brain, for instance by flickering light … control the representation of sensory information by gamma waves, which gives us the freedom to control what we … focused several flavors of oscillations – theta, beta and gamma, in the striatum region of the brain. Annabelle Singer …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/318

Special Seminar with Laura Colgin, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

… Colgin, PhD, University of Texas at Austin Slow and fast gamma rhythms in the hippocampal network … Signal Processing Public Event Title:  Slow and fast gamma rhythms in the hippocampal network Abstract:  Brain … facilitate neuronal communication across brain regions.  Gamma is a particular rhythm type that occurs throughout many …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/465

Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models

Monday, Dec 09
… The sweeping extent to which increasing 40Hz “gamma” rhythm power in the brain can affect the pathology and … or sound buzzing at 40Hz, a method dubbed “ GENUS ” for Gamma ENtrainment Using Sensory stimuli, strengthens the … his research on the cells and circuitry underlying visual gamma entrainment at the 2019 Society for Neuroscience Annual …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/595

New study reveals how brain waves control working memory

Friday, Jan 26
… In a 2016 study , Miller and Lundqvist found that gamma rhythms are associated with encoding and retrieving sensory information. They also found that when gamma rhythms went up, beta rhythms went down, and vice … sequence, it held the memory of object A, represented by gamma waves. If the next object seen was indeed A, beta waves …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/146

In Alzheimer’s research, MIT scientists reveal brain rhythm role

Tuesday, Oct 22
… Tsai presents latest findings on sensory stimulation of gamma rhythm neurodegeneration microglia 40Hz In the years … using light and sound to strengthen the brain’ s 40Hz “gamma” rhythm, a technique she calls “GENUS,” for Gamma Entrainment Using Sensory stimuli. “We are eager to …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/583

Making waves for health

Thursday, Mar 01
… gaze at lights that flicker at 40 Hz – the frequency of a gamma rhythm in the brain – helped Alzheimer’s model mice to … experiments reported in Nature showed that entraining the gamma rhythm in the visual cortex coordinated beneficial … brain cells that clear away harmful protein plaques. Gamma light flicker therapy has since begun human trials. …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/274

As information flows through brain’s heirarchy, higher regions use higher frequency waves

Tuesday, Sep 08
… (when working memory was tested), the power of theta and gamma frequency bands of brain waves would increase in bursts … in the period between first sight and the test, theta and gamma power went down and alpha and beta power went up in … The researchers also observed that the bursts of theta and gamma power were closely associated with neural spikes that …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/703

Rhythmic interactions between cortical layers control what we hold in mind

Monday, Jan 15
… a variety of working memory tasks, higher frequency gamma rhythms in superficial layers of the PFC were regulated … compromised. In this image by lead author Andre Bastos, gamma (blue) and beta (red) combine like jazz rhythms in the … fellow Mikael Lundqvist led a study showing that gamma waves perked up in power when sensory (neuroscientists …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/143

Brain waves guide us in spotlighting surprises

Monday, Nov 23
… activity for what’s novel prefrontal cortex visual cortex gamma working memory … associated with unexpected stimuli via higher-frequency gamma waves. The backflow of alpha/beta carrying inhibitory … layers of the cortex, while the forward flow of excitatory gamma carrying novel stimuli propagated across superficial …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/727

Why visual stimulation may work against Alzheimer’s

Tuesday, May 07
… amyloid plaques in mice neurodegeneration oscillations gamma aging … model mouse, and an Alzheimer's mouse treated with gamma-frequency light flicker. Beneficial brain waves Tsai’s … 40 hertz (cycles per second) induces brain waves known as gamma oscillations in the visual cortex. These brain waves …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/515

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