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UBC scientists uncover why some Huntington disease patients decline years earlier

New research from UBC’s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute explains why some people with Huntington disease develop symptoms a decade earlier and points to a promising treatment target. A new study has revealed why some people with Huntington disease develop symptoms 10 to 12 years earlier and experience a more aggressive form of…

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Dr. Jonathan Pillow: Disentangling the Roles of Distinct Cell Classes with Cell-Type Dynamical Systems

September 18

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A large body of recent work has focused on the problem of inferring neural population dynamics from recordings of neural activity. However, these models typically ignore the fact that the brain contains multiple cell types, which limits their ability to predict the effects of cell-specific perturbations, or to capture the functional roles of distinct cell classes. To overcome these limitations,…

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