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Advancing science for the benefit of humanity. #astrophysics #nanoscience #neuroscience #theoreticalphysics #scienceandsociety
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For #BrainAwarenessWeek we asked Kavli-affiliated neuroscientists what their favorite part of the brain is! What's yours?

Lisa Genzel What’s your favorite part of the brain? The hippocampus-retrosplenial cortex-prefrontal cortex pathway “I love how during sleep you can see the different regions talk to each other in a discussion where the retrosplenial cortex seems to be the mediator between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, as if those two would speak different dialects and they need the retrosplenial cortex to translate. It is lovely to watch in real time.”
Giulia Quattrocolo What’s your favorite part of the brain? Cajal-Retzius cells “These neurons are present in the cortex and in the hippocampus during development but, while in the cortex they die soon after birth, they survive for much longer in the hippocampus. Why? What do they do in the hippocampus that makes them so important that they need to stick around? This is what I am trying to figure out!”
Graeme Davis What’s your favorite part of the brain? Syapses “Synapses are much more than static relays. Synapses can grow and shrink, strengthen and weaken, thereby changing how information flows through the brain to enable learning and memory, emotion and pain.”
Erich D. Jarvis What’s your favorite part of the brain? The vocal learning circuit or pathway “Our work suggest that the spoken language pathway is derived from a more ancient motor learning pathway found in vertebrates broadly, which has been subsequently specialized for the complex special behavior we do with learned vocal communication to pass on knowledge from one generation to the next.”
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Mine is the perirhinal cortex with its peculiar inhibitory population www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...#neuroskyence

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🧠 It's #BrainAwarenessWeek! 🧠 We are celebrating this week by asking Kavli-affiliated neuroscientists, "What's your favorite part of the brain?" Follow along as we hear from them.

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Oooh! Stay up to date with Kavli Prize news!

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Sign up for our newsletter! You'll get the latest news, events, and features of Kavli Prize Laureates. You can expect an email from us quarterly, with a special editions for our June 12 announcement. #KavliPrize2024 Visit www.kavliprize.org/about/newsle... to sign up!

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We're very excited about the June 12 announcement of this year's Kavli Prize Laureates! What breakthrough discoveries will be honored next? Mark your calendars for this celebration of science! #KavliPrize2024

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Three great fields, all alike in dignity, that The Kavli Foundation is proud to support to infinity.
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Orchids for neuroscience: complex layers like the brain. Learning each day how the mind sparks emotions or produces twangs of pain.
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Hyacinths for nanoscience: rows of buds like stacked cells. Discoveries for a sustainable future that will help our planet do well.
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Violets for astrophysics: for the purples of deep space. We've seen much farther than ever before with what telescopes allow us to trace.
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Happy Valentine's Day! 💐

This Valentine's Day, we're giving flowers to our scientific fields...
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The Kavli Foundation
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Advancing science for the benefit of humanity. #astrophysics #nanoscience #neuroscience #theoreticalphysics #scienceandsociety
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