Ondik, Mercedes Maye(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
X-linked dystonia parkinsonism (XDP), also known as torsion dystonia type 3 (DYT3), afflicts hundreds of individuals. Under an X-linked mode of inheritance, the DYT3 haplotype occurs in Filipino populations and is of the ...
Ghadooshahy, Azriel (Azriel Sion)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The ventral pre-arcuate area (VPA) in the primate prefrontal cortex has recently been found to play an important role in feature-based selection of visual targets in the context of a naturalistic free-gaze visual search ...
Jaime-Bustamante, Kean (Kean Willyams)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The amygdala is a structure well known for its role in fear and reward learning, but how these mechanisms are used for decision-making is not well understood. Decision-making involves the rapid updating of cue associations ...
Futrell, Richard Landy Jones(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
I explore the hypothesis that the universal properties of human languages can be explained in terms of efficient communication given fixed human information processing constraints. I argue that under short-term memory ...
Scott, David (David Arthur)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Class II CRISPR-Cas RNA programmable DNA endonucleases enable high efficiency genome editing across the biological diversity for research, industrial, and biomedical applications. Human genome editing with CRISPR-Cas just ...