Sentences with phrase «electrophysiology experiments»

After 3 - 5 hours, Mao conducted electrophysiology experiments to detect the presence of synaptic plasticity and determine which neurotransmitter receptors were involved in its development.

The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology, Bioengineering, or other closely related field, and will have expertise in conducting electrophysiology experiments as well as analyzing electrophysiological signals from animal or human studies.

In a set of electrophysiology experiments published in 2009, Bikson and some of his colleagues demonstrated that a mild electric field can synchronize activity in a neural network.

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The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

Their answer, garnered through a series of electrophysiology, dendritic spine density and immunohistochemistry experiments with mice that were genetically altered to produce either more new neurons or kill off newborn neurons, supports the second model — some of the cortical neurons transfer their connections from mature granule cells to the new granule cells.

A whole series of experiments based on two - photon microscopy, electrophysiology and behavioural analyses have shown that Tm cells are activated specifically by «light OFF» brightness changes.

Combining genetics, electrophysiology, and behavioral experiments in freely moving mice, Halassa found that different TRN neurons are active when animals are asleep and awake.

I am trying to answer questions like these using a number of different techniques including behavioural experiments, electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, and phylogenetics.

In his lab we use multidisciplinary approaches that include behavioral experiments in the field and in the laboratory, neuroanatomy, in vivo electrophysiology, calcium imaging and modeling.