Kevin Mitchell
I am a neurogeneticist interested in the genetics of brain wiring and its contribution to variation in human faculties. Author of INNATE (2018).
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Broca's Area Is Not a Natural Kind. - PubMed - NCBI
Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 7h 1 tweets
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I Will Survive, Coronavirus version for teachers going online
YouTube 12d 64 tweets
Kevin Mitchell I Will Survive, Coronavirus version for teachers going online via - too real 😂 8h
Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker!
Flightradar24.com 1035d 112 tweets
Flightradar24 is the best live flight tracker that shows air traffic in real time. Best coverage and cool features!
Development and Arealization of the Cerebral Cortex. - PubMed - NCBI
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Students need maximum flexibility for assessments from home
Times Higher Education (THE) 13h 3 tweets
A solution that works for some might not work for others. Each student’s circumstances must be considered, argues Simon Hunt
Kevin Mitchell Students need maximum flexibility for assessments from home via 12h
Capitalism Has its Limits
Versobooks.com 10d 3 tweets
Judith Butler discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, and its escalating political and social effects in America.
How the Pandemic Will End
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 3d 235 tweets
The U.S. may end up with the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.
Coronavirus: Met Police chief asks recently retired officers to re-join force
Sky News 41h 5 tweets
Cressida Dick writes to former officers who retired in the last five years to ask them to re-join in a paid or voluntary capacity.
Coronavirus: People must stay at home, with limited exceptions, until Easter Sunday
Pat Leahy - The Irish Times 30h 1 tweets
People are told not to walk more than 2km from their homes
Taoiseach tells everyone in Ireland to stay at home for two weeks from midnight tonight, with only specific listed exemptions
TheJournal.ie 30h 1 tweets
A further 302 cases of Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland were confirmed this evening.
Support St James's Hospital Superheroes
St. James's Hospital Foundation 6d 2 tweets
Support St James’s Hospital Superheroes. Some Superheroes wear capes… …ours wear scrubs. Please support our frontline healthcare staff and the patients they care for at St James’s Hospital.Our health care professionals at St James’s go above and...
Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) L100P mutants have impaired activity-dependent plasticity in vivo and in vitro
Translational Psychiatry 35h 1 tweets
Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (<i>DISC1</i>) L100P mutants have impaired activity-dependent plasticity <i>in vivo</i> and <i>in vitro</i>
Kevin Mitchell Related: DISC1 L100P mutants have impaired activity-dependent plasticity in vivo and in vitro by + colleagues (including me) 35h
Autism-Associated Shank3 Is Essential for Homeostatic Compensation in Rodent V1
Neuron 35h 1 tweets
Shank3 loss or disfunction is strongly associated with autism spectrum disorders. Tatavarty et al. show that Shank3 loss impairs homeostatic plasticity and blocks homeostatic compensation during sensory perturbations; Li treatment restores...
Kevin Mitchell Autism-Associated Shank3 Is Essential for Homeostatic Compensation in Rodent V1 - nice work from 35h
A New York Doctor’s Warning
The Atlantic 37h 18 tweets
China warned Italy. Italy warned us. We didn’t listen. Now the onus is on the rest of America to listen to New York.
Whole-Neuron Synaptic Mapping Reveals Spatially Precise Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance Limiting Dendritic and Somatic Spiking
Neuron 16d 3 tweets
Iascone et al. developed an open source software within Vaa3D to map the distribution and morphology of synapses across the dendritic arbor of mouse layer 2/3 cortical PNs. Reconstruction of >90,000 synapses and computational modeling reveal...
Kevin Mitchell Related: Whole-Neuron Synaptic Mapping Reveals Spatially Precise Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance Limiting Dendritic and Somatic Spiking 38h
Heterosynaptic Plasticity Determines the Set Point for Cortical Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance
Neuron 3d 2 tweets
After induction of synaptic plasticity at specific inputs, Field et al. found that coordinated changes occur across multiple inhibitory and excitatory inputs onto cortical pyramidal neurons. The relative timing and degree of heterosynaptic...
Kevin Mitchell Heterosynaptic Plasticity Determines the Set Point for Cortical Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance 38h
Held in the balance
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 39h 1 tweets
Chandelier cells, a type of cortical interneuron targeting the axon initial segment of pyramidal cells are shown to monitor network activity and adjust their output in a homeostatic manner.
Discontinuity in the genetic and environmental causes of the intellectual disability spectrum. - PubMed - NCBI
Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 39h 1 tweets
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
COVID-19
Science Foundation Ireland 39h 1 tweets
At SFI we believe in the ability of science, technology, engineering & maths to effect positive change in the world and drive a sustainable international economy.
A compilation of Italian Mayors and Governors losing it at people violating Coronavirus quarantine (with accurate subtitles)
reddit 39h 1 tweets
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