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Research Update Rare Neurons Enable Mental Flexibility OIST researchers identify the neurons that help adapt to changing environments 24 June 2015
Institutional News Culturing the Connectome OIST researchers find a way to recreate connectivity between cells from separate brain regions 19 June 2015
Research Update Dark Neural Patches OIST researchers advance understanding of Parkinson’s disease. 11 March 2015
Research Update Calling the Shots: The Brain’s Decision-making Structure A key part of the brain involved with decisions and movement appears to operate like a traditional corporation. 27 February 2015
Research Update Sounds of Silence Refined techniques in brain activity analysis in zebra finches yields interesting results about how vocalization works. 26 January 2015
Research Update Tackling Neurotransmission Precision Professor Tomoyuki Takahashi introduces a new way to measure the distance from voltage-gated channels to vesicles, and explains how this distance affects neural signaling precision and efficacy. 18 December 2014
Research Update OIST Joins Japan’s Brain/MINDS Project OIST becomes part of Japan’s national effort to map the Brain 05 December 2014
Research Update Readying the Neural Network Marianela Garcia-Munoz and Violeta Lopez-Huerta illuminate a new purpose for a receptor known to trigger cell death. 17 November 2014
Research Update Shaping the Way to See the World A new study of lens morphology through cell proliferation is helping to understand how complex biological structures form. 16 October 2014
Research Update To See or Not to See OIST researcher Sigita Augustinaite suggests a mechanism for how dendritic potentials in thalamocortical neurons allow visual signals to pass from retina to cortex. 01 September 2014
Research Update Fed Up with Waiting? Timely Activation of Serotonin Enhances Patience Researchers in the Neural Computation Unit used a new technique called optogenetics to examine the brain mechanism for controlling patience to obtain a reward. 21 August 2014
Research Update The Mystery of Cell Proliferation: Matching Histone to DNA New research from Professor Ichiro Masai points to stem-loop binding protein for cell proliferation and differentiation in living vertebrates 19 August 2014
