Neurotechnology

Picower Institute Neuroscientists don't just apply the latest technologies and methods for studying the brain, they also often invent them. To learn more about how researchers here work at, and expand, the frontiers of research, select them under Research Topics and you'll find relevant Picower people, discoveries and events.

August 29, 2022

Research Findings

Separating densely packed molecules before imaging allows them to become visible for the first time

August 15, 2022

Picower People

As he works to solve an advanced problem at the intersection of computing and neurobiology, Picower Institute post-baccalaureate scholar Eric Bueno is also thinking of how he could pay his experience forward

July 29, 2022

Research Findings

Using organoids to model early development, researchers used an emerging microscopy technology to see that new neurons struggled to reach their developmental destination

July 28, 2022

Research Findings

To ensure a quick halt, brain circuit architecture avoids a slow process of integration in favor of quicker differentiation, study finds

April 11, 2022

Research Findings

Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that “engrams,” the ensembles of neurons encoding a memory, are widely distributed, including among regions not previously realized

January 13, 2022

Research Findings

An upgrade of ‘MAP’ enables labeling of more proteins, deeper studies of circuit junctions in brain tissue

November 22, 2021

Research Findings

By integrating multiple sensory inputs, a loop of mutual inhibition among a small set of neurons allows worms to switch between long-lasting behavioral states

January 11, 2021

Research Findings

Findings suggest this hippocampal circuit helps us to maintain our timeline of memories.

December 18, 2020

Research Findings

Researchers identify a new level of complexity in how the brain responds to stimuli

December 14, 2020

Research Feature

Picower scientists are making the dauntingly long but highly motivating climb between associating a gene with disease and developing potential treatments.

November 2, 2020

Research Findings

Study shows that norepinephrine producing neurons in the locus coeruleus produce attention focus, impulse control via two distinct connections to prefrontal cortex

September 17, 2020

Research Findings

Scientists distinguish brain regions based on what they do, but now have a new way to overlay information about how they are built

Microscopy technique reveals hidden nanostructures in cells and tissues

At a research forefront, young scholar looks ahead to graduate school, chance to mentor others

Advanced imaging reveals mired migration of neurons in Rett syndrome lab models

Sprint then stop? Brain is wired for the math to make it happen

A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions

Next-generation tissue expansion method improves neural imaging

Feast or forage: Study finds circuit that helps a brain decide

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit that encodes timing of events

Playing chess, not checkers: Neurons dynamically control their myelin patterns

Genes & Disease

Scientists identify specific brain region and circuits controlling attention

Live imaging method brings structural information to mapping of brain function