Mark Sheffield (@sheffield_lab) 's Twitter Profile
Mark Sheffield

@sheffield_lab

UChicago Neuroscientist & Associate Professor - Mechanisms of Memory 🧠.

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Prof. Carl Sagan (@profcarlsagan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." - Richard Feynman

Prof. Carl Sagan (@profcarlsagan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Are we too bamboozled to see the truth? Share if this hits hard!

Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Are we too bamboozled to see the truth? Share if this hits hard!
Curiosity (@mastronomers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨This is a new image from JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

🚨This is a new image from JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute (@uchicago_brains) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#NeuroNews Our undergraduate students Stacia Konow and John Ponce assist Dr. Mark Sheffield in his lab and they talked about the work they have been doing as well as how their experience inside the lab has influenced their undergrad journey at UChicago. college.uchicago.edu/news/student-s…

Danny Huang, MD (@yuhaohuangmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease has entered a new era. Two nature studies demonstrate that pluripotent stem cell–derived dopamine neurons can survive, restore function, and potentially change the treatment paradigm for this neurodegenerative disease.

Stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease has entered a new era. Two <a href="/Nature/">nature</a> studies demonstrate that pluripotent stem cell–derived dopamine neurons can survive, restore function, and potentially change the treatment paradigm for this neurodegenerative disease.
Paul Frankland (@franklandlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested

The Transmitter (@_thetransmitter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Donald Hebb’s theory—memorably summarized as “cells that fire together, wire together”— does not explain the shifting hippocampal connections that occur in mice as they learn to navigate an unfamiliar virtual environment. By Sydney Wyatt thetransmitter.org/memory/learnin…