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MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity

Friday, Jun 22
… MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity June 22, 2018 Research Findings When a synapse … strengthens, others immediately nearby weaken plasticity synaptic plasticity optogenetics visual cortex visual system … This finding, he said, provides an explanation of how synaptic strengthening and weakening combine in neurons to …
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Troy Littleton

… MIT Department of Biology in 2000. Synapse Mapping Neural Plasticity Genetic Engineering Autism Spectrum Disorders … Brain Imaging Activity Sensors Glia synapse formation synaptic transmission glia epilepsy neurological disorders … work is to understand the mechanisms by which neurons form synaptic connections, how synapses transmit information, and …
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Mark Bear

… Early Life Stress Visual System Schizophrenia Neural Plasticity Learning and Memory mGluR5 LTD LTP monocular … in the question of how experience and deprivation modify synaptic connections in the brain. Experience-dependent synaptic plasticity is the physical substrate of memory, …
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Beckman Foundation Names Mark Bear as 2018 Beckman-Argyros Vision Research Award Winner

Tuesday, Aug 07
… respectively, to further advance his research harnessing synaptic plasticity to promote recovery from amblyopia, commonly known … many of the fundamental principles and mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the cerebral cortex, which is the way …
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Special Seminar with Mriganka Sur, PhD

… Autism Spectrum Disorders Public Event Title: "Cortical Plasticity" This is a Zoom webinar.  Click here  to join or … into your browser:  https://mit.zoom.us/j/97608996526   Plasticity shapes the brain during development, and … learning rules that involve not only Hebbian changes and synaptic scaling but also dendritic renormalization. By using …
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CANCELED: Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Roger Nicoll, MD, University of California, San Francisco

… States https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46 Colloquium Neural Plasticity Learning and Memory Public Event The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Synaptic Plasticity My lab is interested in elucidating the … a long lasting (many weeks) enhancement in the strength of synaptic transmission, is generally accepted to be a key …
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Antidepressant restores youthful flexibility to aging inhibitory neurons in mice

Monday, Aug 20
… neurons in mice August 20, 2018 Research findings Neural plasticity, dendrite growth decline with age, study finds inhibitory neurons plasticity synaptic plasticity … that structural alterations in neuronal morphology and synaptic connections are features most consistently …
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Findings weaken notion that size equals strength for neural connections

Tuesday, Jun 30
… X” mGluR5 synapse function synapse synapse formation synaptic plasticity plasticity Fragile X Syndrome hippocampus … in response to experience.  Scientists have studied this “synaptic plasticity” for decades, but a new study by …
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MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Betty Hong, PhD, Caltech

… Circuits Neuro Genomics and Proteomics Optogenetics Neural Plasticity Public Event The Hong lab investigates the molecular basis of synaptic specialization and its role in physiology, behavior, … diversity at synapses gives rise to useful variation in synaptic physiology, and how this may reflect the …
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Elly Nedivi

… Imaging Visual System Neuro Genomics and Proteomics Neural Plasticity Mood Disorders synaptic plasticity synapse assembly synapse disassembly … genes important for neuronal survival, connectivity, and synaptic transmission, suggesting that activity-regulated …
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