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CANCELED: Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Roger Nicoll, MD, University of California, San Francisco

… the rapid activity-dependent trafficking of glutamate receptors to the synapse. This trafficking requires the … of proteins that, we discovered which bind to glutamate receptors and act as auxiliary subunits. These proteins are … not only essential for the trafficking of the glutamate receptors, but also control the gating of the receptor …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/599

With sophisticated tools in a simple model, scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior

Thursday, Feb 20
… 2020 New Research New NIH grant funds study that will span receptors, cells, the whole brain and behavior … that express each of the worm’s five distinct serotonin receptors. Moreover, Flavell’s lab has developed an … patterns of serotonin release can stimulate distinct receptors (or combinations of them) on a multitude of neurons …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/623

Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery

Friday, Dec 13
… his team expected to confirm that key proteins called NMDA receptors act specifically in neurons in layer 4 of the … Researchers used a genetic technique to knock out NMDA receptors in layer 4 of the visual cortex of mice. The cortex … mixed.  However, while the evidence demonstrates that NMDA receptors in layer 4 neurons are indeed necessary for the …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/591

MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity

Friday, Jun 22
… obey it. They used a chemical tag to watch how key “AMPA” receptors changed in the synapses and saw that synaptic … with reduced amount of Arc were able to express more AMPA receptors whereas increased Arc in neighboring spines caused those synapses to express less AMPA receptors. “We think Arc maintains a balance of synaptic …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/350

Aging Brain Seminar with Jerold Chun, MD, PhD

… receptor, an initial member of a growing family of lipid receptors that includes S1P receptors that are targets for two current neuroscience … & siponimod for Multiple Sclerosis) with lysophospholipid receptors also linked to other diseases, including …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/566

Study shows how specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk

Wednesday, Jan 09
… to neural activity, that helps regulate the number of receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate at excitatory … synapses or that decreased the proper cycling of glutamate receptors within synapses. The findings show how genetic …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/463

Alumnus gives MIT $4.5 million to establish the Broderick Fund for Phytocannabinoid Research

Tuesday, Apr 30
… ganglia circuits. These deep brain circuits, which contain receptors that mediate the effects of cannabis, are known to … effects of cannabinoids. Her team recently found that CB1 receptors are tightly linked to dopamine — a neurotransmitter … a member of the McGovern Institute, will examine how CB1 receptors in the striatum, a deep brain structure implicated …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/508

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Kang Shen, PhD, HHMI, Stanford University

https://picower.mit.edu/node/606

What separates the strong from the weak among connections in the brain

Tuesday, Jul 10
… the typical weak synapse, GluRIIA and GluRIIB containing receptors were pretty much mixed together. But in strong …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/355

Troy Littleton

… significance of spontaneous release is less clear. Whether receptors on the postsynaptic cell have the ability to … both vesicle release mechanisms activate the same set of receptors, crosstalk would occur between the two modes of … release, indicating a population of postsynaptic receptors is uniquely activated by this mode of vesicle …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/43

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