Richard Huganir: Synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying learning in the brain
[38:17] Richard Huganir – Professor and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience; Directo…
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Jeff Lichtman: The Role of Neuronal Identity in Synaptic Competition
[10:58] Harvard University Prof. Jeff Lichtman on neuromuscular junction, loss of axon connections, and ‘bra…
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New gene-editing technology partially restores vision in blind animals
[3:24] Salk researchers have discovered, for the first time, how to place DNA in specific locations in non-dividing ce…
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Light-based therapy for Alzheimer’s disease
[4:44] Researchers in Li-Huei Tsai’s laboratory at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown th…
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Salk scientists reverse signs of aging in mice
[3:31] Scientists at the Salk Institute have found that intermittent expression of genes normally associated with an …
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Visual Stimuli that Cause Mice to Freeze or Flee
[5:08] Mice are an increasingly popular animal model for understanding vision in health and disease, but we know littl…
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Is It Possible To Erase Your Memories?
[3:31] Could someone actually erase your memories? First, let’s look at what a memory is, and how these things form. A…
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Study Finds Only a Small Portion of Synapses May Be Active During Neurotransmission
[0:48] Columbia University scientists have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmit…
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Circuit Tweak Boosts Social Memory in Mice
[6:31] NIMH scientists have boosted the staying power of a social memory in mice at least 80-fold by stimulating a brain …
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Douglas Melton: Lab Mice Can Live Forever. Soon, So Will You.
[3:10] Douglas Melton, Harvard University biologist, describes an experiment on parabiotic mice that may hold the ke…
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