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Laura Lewis, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Brain Energetics

Affiliations
  • Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor of IMES and EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Associate Faculty, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
Website
lewisneurolab.org

Publications

A temporal sequence of thalamic activity unfolds at transitions in behavioral arousal state

Nat Commun., September 16, 2022

B Setzer, NE Fultz, DEP Gomez, SD Williams, G Bonmassar, JR Polimeni, et al.

Disruption of Brainstem Structural Connectivity in REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Using 7 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Mov Disord, December 29, 2021

MG García-Gomar, A Videnovic, K Singh, M Stauder, Laura Lewis, LL Wald, et al.

How pushing the spatiotemporal resolution of fMRI can advance neuroscience

Prog Neurobiol, November 9, 2021

L Vizioli, E Yacoub, and Laura Lewis

The interconnected causes and consequences of sleep in the brain

Science, October 28, 2021

Laura Lewis

Projects

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Plasticity and the Aging Brain

Simons Collaboration
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Promoting functional brain maintenance – insights from successful agers

Funded Work
Microglia Spines

Contribution of sleep and neuro-immune-vascular homeostasis to healthy cognitive aging

Funded Work

Featuring Laura Lewis

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The Good Kind of Brainwashing

Events

The Causes and Consequences of Sleep in the Human Brain

Lecture

November 1, 2023

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Laura Lewis

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