Katie Moisse
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Award-winning science journalist and assistant prof @McMasterU teaching #scicomm. She/her. 🇨🇦
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1 month ago |
thetransmitter.org | Katie Moisse |Laura Dattaro |Tyler Sloan |Mark Humphries
Contributing editor The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Connectome, Artificial intelligence, Axons, Calcium imaging, Cellular neuroscience, Circuits, Connectivity, Dendrites, Excitatory signaling, Inhibitory signaling, Interneurons, Machine learning, Microscopy, Neural circuits, Synapses, Synaptic plasticity, Visual cortex The most comprehensive map to date of cell structure and function in the mouse cortex reveals a previously unappreciated level of coordination among inhibitory...
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2 months ago |
thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Chloe Williams |Katie Moisse
Multipurpose tool: The U.S. National Institutes of Health has announced that its NIH Baby Toolbox is now available as an iPad app. It contains more than 30 assessment tools to cover broad areas of development, including cognition, social-emotional function and motor skills. The app uses eye-tracking and touch-based inputs in addition to clinician and parent reports. Data can be viewed as raw scores or in relation to nationwide age-adjusted averages.
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2 months ago |
thetransmitter.org | Calli McMurray |Katie Moisse |Angie Voyles Askham |Ashley Juavinett
ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Cognitive neuroscience, Attention, Brain imaging, Developmental neuroscience, fMRI, Hippocampus, Learning, Memory, Neurodevelopment A decade ago, Nick Turk-Browne unintentionally created a paradox. He demonstrated in a series of studies that statistical learning, or the ability to extract patterns from experiences, depends on the hippocampus, a brain region also involved in forming episodic memories.
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2 months ago |
thetransmitter.org | Chloe Williams |Jill Adams |Katie Moisse |Angie Voyles Askham
Changes in gene regulation and expression precede alterations in neuronal function and behavior in mice lacking MECP2, the gene implicated in Rett syndrome, according to a new study. The findings shed light on the cascade of events that occur when MECP2 is lost and suggest gene expression changes likely lead to the neuronal and behavioral characteristics of the condition, the researchers say. Rett syndrome is a rare condition, usually caused by variants in MECP2.
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2 months ago |
thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Katie Moisse |Angie Voyles Askham |Charles Choi
Noise cancellation: Mice that carry autism-linked variants of the SCN2A gene show changes in neuronal activity that correlate with observed changes in sociability, according to a preprint. Mechanistically, the excitation-inhibition ratio was boosted in SCN2A-deficient neurons, creating a noisy background for social signals, the researchers found.
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The most comprehensive map to date of cell structure and function in the mouse cortex reveals a previously unappreciated level of coordination among inhibitory interneurons. By @katiemoisse https://t.co/3Tg7q8O1Dg
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Join me next week for chat with my mentor, @DrRichBesser, president and CEO of @RWJF. We'll discuss his leadership in public health, including his time as Acting Director of the CDC and ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor 👉 https://t.co/af5jDIUWan @McMasterU #scicomm https://t.co/U6RzqYXMwP