DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The function of a brain region is an emergent property of many cell types.
Funded Awards
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TitleTowards a Complete Description of the Circuitry Underlying Memory replay.
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Ivan Soltesz
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university of california-irvine
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TitleUltra-Multiplexed Nanoscale In Situ Proteomics for Understanding Synapse Types
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Mark Bathe, Edward S. Boyden, Peng Yin
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massachusetts institute of technology
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Significant work is ongoing to reveal how different cell types in the brain contribute to behavior and pathology, and how they change in plasticity and disease, empowered by new genetic, optical, and physiological tools.
TitleVascular Interfaces for Brain Imaging and Stimulation
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Robert Desimone
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massachusetts institute of technology
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Functional MRI (fMRI), EEG, and other completely noninvasive modalities for large-scale imaging of human brain activity have pioneeringly revealed many human brain functions, but cannot reach the single-neuron, single-spike level of neural code analysis poss
TitleVertically integrated approach to visual neuroscience: microcircuits to behavior
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Thomas Euler, Andrew D Huberman, Markus Meister, Hyunjune Sebastian Seung, Rachel O Wong
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princeton university
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Visual neuroscience is finally beginning to achieve a "vertically integrated" understanding of the retina, bridging all levels from molecules to microcircuits to behavior.