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). kjmitchell.com
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Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings
To study the dynamics of neural processing across timescales, we require the ability to follow the spiking of thousands of individually separable neurons over weeks and months, during unrestrained behavior. To address this need, we introduce the...
Enteric neurons increase maternal food intake during reproduction
A multi-organ circuit is activated in female flies after mating, leading to changes in enteric neurons that increase food intake.
Rooting the animal tree of life
There has been considerable debate about the placement of the root in the animal tree of life, which has emerged as one of the most challenging problems in animal phylogenetics. This debate has major implications for our understanding of the...
Individuals with common diseases but with a low polygenic risk score could be prioritized for rare variant screening
Identifying rare genetic causes of common diseases can improve diagnostic and treatment strategies, but incurs high costs. We tested whether individuals with common disease and low polygenic risk score (PRS) for that disease generated from less...
Challenges and future directions for representations of functional brain organization
In this Primer article, Bijsterbosch and colleagues provide an accessible discussion of the challenges faced in analytical representations of functional brain organization and provide clear recommendations to unite a fractionated field.
An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic
The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework (FEP-AI) begins with the understanding that persisting systems must regulate environmental exchanges and prevent entropic accumulation. In FEP-AI, minds and brains are predictive controllers...
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TCD Geography Seminar Series 2020: Iris Moeller gives a talk titled “Wetlands as ‘nature based’ coastal defences – 25 years of progress?”
Are There Islands of Awareness?
Ordinary human experience is embedded in a web of causal relations that link the brain
to the body and the wider environment. However, there might be conditions in which
brain activity supports consciousness even when that activity is fully causally...
Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
A handful of experiments are raising questions about whether clumps of cells and disembodied brains could be sentient, and how scientists would know if they were.
CRISPR People
What does the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?
In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were...
Irish aviation industry will ‘not exist’ without urgent political action, Oireachtas committee told
Irish Aviation Authority calls for quarantine to be replaced with pre-travel testing regime
Registration Form
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Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’
Liberal arts departments, graduate student aid and even tenured teaching positions are targets as the coronavirus causes shortfalls.
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U.S. Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’
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Approval for redevelopment and restoration of Old Library in Trinity College
Conservation of Long Room, home to Book of Kells, and new construction planned
How Do Electric Fields Coordinate Neuronal Migration and Maturation in the Developing Cortex?
During development the vast majority of cells that will later compose the mature cerebral cortex undergo extensive migration to reach their final position. In addition to intrinsically distinct migratory behaviors, cells encounter and respond to...
Immune markers in newborns show complex relationship with autism odds | Spectrum | Autism Research News
Newborns with either above- or below-average levels of an immune-system marker, among other differences, have increased odds of being autistic.
Multivariate genome-wide association study identifies 1735 unique genetic loci associated with cortical morphology.
Brain morphology has been shown to be highly heritable, yet only a small portion of the heritability is explained by the genetic variants discovered so far. Here we exploit the distributed nature of genetic effects across the brain and apply the...
Was Dracula Irish?
It is possible to view the Count as Irish or influenced by the Ireland of Bram Stoker's time in many ways.