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Dedicated to understanding the mechanisms underlying learning and memory and related brain functions and disease. Profile art by @toddsiler
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined May 2010
🧠New research finding: Astrocytes ensure neural information processing by maintaining ambient levels of the neurotransmitter chemical GABA #neuroscience #brain @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT.
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MIT researchers employed a novel application of tools and analysis to show that astrocytes ensure neural information processing by maintaining ambient levels of the neurotransmitter chemical GABA.
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RT @_TheTransmitter: In @_TheTransmitter's reading list, we highlight the most anticipated upcoming neuroscience books and other notable 20….
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Dig into an exploration of the fundamental aspects of intelligence, a new textbook about theoretical neuroscience and a memoir about memory research, among other new releases.
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🗓️Join us Sept. 18 for an amazing day of talks and presentations looking at how the nervous and immune systems intersect in the aging brain. Registration is open! #neuroscience #immunology #alzheimers #aging.
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RT @MillerLabMIT: Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness."Neuroscientists like Earl K. Mill….
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A universal marker of unconsciousness could transform both medicine and our understanding of the mind.
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RT @kochinstitute: Lights, Microscope, Action! The 2026 Image Awards competition is now open. MIT students, faculty & staff—submit your mos….
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By combining several cutting-edge imaging technologies, a new microscope system could enable unprecedentedly deep and precise visualization of metabolic and neuronal activity, potentially even in humans #neuroscience #microscopy @mitbrainandcog @MITMechE.
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By combining several cutting-edge imaging technologies, a new microscope system could enable unprecedentedly deep and precise visualization of metabolic and neuronal activity, potentially even in...
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Electroencephalogram Signatures of Propanidid-Mediated Sedation and Unconsciousness | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society #anesthesia #neuroscience.
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Objectives: Propanidid is an intravenous short-acting sedative-hypnotic anesthetic in the eugenol family that acts as a positive allosteric modulator of the gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (G A B A A)...
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RT @NEIDirector: Key role for non-neural brain cells in processing vision: . Studies in mice show that astrocytes ensure neural information….
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A new study by @SurLabMIT shows benefits, but also limits, of environmental enrichment for Rett syndrome mice: #rettsyndrome #neuroscience #neurology #research.@ScienceMIT.@mitbrainandcog.
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This study reveals that the loss of MeCP2 in Rett syndrome model mice disrupts prefrontal connectivity. Although early environmental enrichment helps mitigate behavioral deficits and restores...
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For undergrads who don't have enough opportunities at their home institutions to study #neuroscience, the MSRP-Bio program provides a summer opportunity to do research in our labs. Meet two current students: @MITBiology @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT.
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For undergraduates around the country who are interested in studying neuroscience but don't have enough opportunities at their home institutions, Picower Institute labs can provide a way to do...
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RT @MillerLabMIT: Part of a wicked cool project to realistically model brain systems:.Scientific Machine Learning of Chaotic Systems Discov….
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Discovering governing equations that describe complex chaotic systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and neuroscience. Here, we introduce the PEM-UDE method, which combines the...
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RT @MIT: What if your immune system could change your mood? MIT scientists just discovered that a molecule that fights infection—IL-17—can….
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MIT scientists find the protein IL-17 that fights infection also acts on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability. This adds to evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.
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RT @leyla_aakay: What is the role of myelin in Alzheimer's disease? Excited to share our new Perspective in @NatureCellBio, where we review….
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Nature Cell Biology - Recent literature has explored the contributions of oligodendrocytes and myelin dysfunction to Alzheimer’s disease. Here, we discuss emerging evidence that...
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A new comment in @NatureCellBio reviews emerging evidence that oligodendrocytes, the cells that wrap the axons of neurons with myelin to improve electric signal transmission, may be critical players in Alzheimer's disease
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đź‘€A first-of-its-kind study in mice reveals that neurons add and shed synapses at a frenzied pace during development to integrate visual signals from the two eyes. #neuroscience #vision #research @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT.
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A first-of-its-kind study in mice reveals that neurons add and shed synapses at a frenzied pace during development to integrate visual signals from the two eyes.
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RT @MillerLabMIT: New results: Oscillatory Control of Cortical Space as a Computational Dimension.#neuroscience.
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Flexible cognition depends on the ability to represent and apply context, allowing the brain to interpret sensory input and guide behavior in a context-dependent manner. Recent work has proposed...
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