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Aging Brain Seminar with Ronald A. DePinho, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Aging Brain Seminars / February 24, 2025
Aging Brain Seminar with Ronald A. DePinho, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Li-Huei Tsai, PhD, MIT

Colloquium / February 27, 2025
Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Li-Huei Tsai, PhD, MIT
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Special Events / February 28, 2025
Special Seminar with Nako Nakatsuka, PhD, EPFL
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The way sensory prediction changes under anesthesia tells us how conscious cognition works

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The Picower Institute is a community of scientists dedicated to understanding the mechanisms that drive learning and memory and related functions such as cognition, emotion, perception, behavior, and consciousness. Institute neuroscientists explore the brain and nervous system at multiple scales, from genes and molecules, to cells and synapses, to circuits and systems, producing novel insights into how disruptions in these mechanisms can lead to developmental, psychiatric or neurodegenerative disease.
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The tremendous need for research to address the burdens of the aging brain—memory loss, cognitive decline, and dementia—is what gave rise to an Institute-wide call to action at MIT, the Aging Brain Initiative. 

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