Understanding how the brain makes perceptual decisions and generates action signals is a fundamental goal of neuroscience. Anatomical studies demonstrate […]
[Source: MIT News, April 27, 2015] Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first […]
The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, […]
Inhibitory neuron functionality is not an immutable property of cortical cells, but a consequence of more complex network dynamics. The […]
Monocular deprivation (MD) experiments have proven invaluable for investigating the cellular and molecular underpinnings of experience-dependent plasticity. MD during the […]
Mutations in methyl-CpG–binding protein 2 (MECP2), a gene located on the X chromosome, are responsible for the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett […]
Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes intellectual disabilities, autism, and physical deformities, has no cure. However, a small […]
RNA acts as the intermediary between genes and proteins, but the function of pieces of RNA that do not code […]