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Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Ph.D. / Sc.D.
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The most fascinating function of the nervous system is its ability to generate consciousness, the subjective experience or qualia that distinguishes awake life from dreamless sleep. How consciousness is generated is an ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The synaptic proteins Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) and metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) act in functional opposition to regulate local translation of synaptic mRNAs. Fragile X is the most common ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This work is concerned with mRNA processing in mammalian cells and proceeds in two parts. In the first part, I introduce a computational framework for inferring the abundances of mRNA isoforms using high-throughput RNA ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)During sleep and general anesthesia, the brain enters a state of decreased arousal and consciousness is transiently suspended. How this transition occurs is a fundamental and unsolved question in neuroscience. The neural ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)A fundamental goal in neuroscience is to understand mechanisms underlying the ability to create memories from sensory experience. While large structures such as the hippocampus are known to be critical for certain types ...
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