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While the intellectual challenges remain immense, the field of neuroscience is charged with a pervasive optimism, a confidence that the ability to unravel fundamental brain functions is finally within our grasp. Perhaps even within our lifetimes, science may at last come to understand the mechanisms behind tragic disorders such as addiction, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease, and have the knowledge to develop scientifically rational therapies for them.

Today, the Picower Institute is home to thirteen research groups with a total staff of nearly 200. Major research sponsors at the Picower Institute include The National Institutes of Health which provides widespread support for individual research projects, postdoctoral fellowships and student support as well as for a program project supporting six of the Institute's faculty. Three of our faculty are supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). In addition, many of our faculty have received multiple awards from leading private foundations.

A wide variety of organizations choose to collaborate with and support the Picower institute with research funds, gifts to support graduate and post-doctoral fellowships and professorships, and underwriting events and seminars at the Picower Institute. Many health-related research programs in progress at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory are of great potential interest to foundations and corporations.

2011

Susumu Tonegawa's laboratory discovered a novel electrophysiological mechanism in the mammalian hippocampus (referred to as preplay) by which encoding of the information from a novel experience is aided by patterns of neuronal activity already present in the hippocampus.

Li-Huei Tsai, and her colleagues recently identified HDAC2 as the major histone deacetylase that regulates synaptic plasticity and memory formation

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