The human brain is understudied when it comes to its cellular, subcellular, vascular, and neural micro-organization. This lack of data has a huge impact on our understanding of…
Tag: Jeff Lichtman
Why Zebrafish Can’t Tickle Themselves
Any sensory experience in any animal species can originate from either an event in the outside world, such as a predator approaching, or from a stimulus generated by…
Zhen, Samuel, and Lichtman Labs Generate Complete Synaptic Census of the C.elegans Brain As It Grows and Rewires Itself
At the cellular level, the layout of the nervous system in any given C. elegans specimen is much the same as any other: Every adult C. elegans has…
Spherical Aberration [HCBI]
Although you’ve likely seen refraction at work in your daily life - a spoon appearing to bend in a glass of water or the colorful patterns made by…
A Neuron Published in Neuron [Lichtman Lab]
In the brain, the function of a nerve cell (a neuron) is based both on the input it receives, via synapses onto its dendrites from upstream neurons, and…
A Closer Look at Neuronal Rewiring in Brain Development [Lichtman Lab]
In many vertebrates, neural circuits undergo substantial reorganization in early postnatal life. This reorganization strengthens some neuron-to-neuron connections, while other neuronal connections are weakened by synapse elimination. It…
Paint Colors on a Connectomic Map [Lichtman Lab]
[caption]Tao Fang (l) and Hidde Ploegh[/caption] Brain is arguably the most complicated biological tissue. Many different cell types are intertwined and interconnected. Moreover the number of different cell…
Harvard Researchers Among Those Receiving More Than $150 Million in Funding from the NIH BRAIN Initiative
Harvard scientists are among dozens of researchers who will receive more than $150 million in funding over the next five years through the National Institute of Health’s Brain…
The First Nanoscale Rendering of an Entire Vertebrate Brain
People frequently operate computer devices such as smartphones that collect user input and process this information to produce outputs on a display or through headphones. Engineers control how…
IN-THE-NEWS; INTERVIEW WITH JEFF LICHTMAN
The journal Neuron conducted a Q&A (PDF) with Jeff Lichtman. View Jeff Lichtman's Faculty Profile
