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.

September 23, 2024

Research Findings

New statistical models based on rigorous physiological data from more than 100 surgeries provide objective, accurate measures of “nociception,” the body’s subconscious perception of pain.

July 1, 2024

Picower People

With a new Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience, Assistant Professor Linlin Fan will seek to strengthen understanding of how neural connections change to encode memories of specific locations.

June 13, 2024

Research Findings

A suite of three innovations by an MIT-based team enables high-throughput imaging of human brain tissue at a full range of scales and mapping connectivity of neurons at single cell resolution.

June 7, 2024

Research Findings

New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel’s timing to maximize signal to noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage

June 4, 2024

Research Findings

A newly described technology improves the clarity and speed of using two-photon microscopy to image synapses in the live brain

March 25, 2024

Research Findings

Scientists have now observed how the brain’s place cells stave off inhibitory input in the process of establishing their tuning to specific locations. The study shows that signaling by endocannabinoids is required.

March 15, 2024

Research Feature

To learn how the brain works, Picower Institute labs are advancing technologies and methods to watch it live as it happens

January 2, 2024

Picower People

Assistant Professor Linlin Fan launches a lab to shine a finely focused, innovative spotlight on the neural basis of encoding knowledge.

November 6, 2023

Picower People

The Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award recognizes Nedivi’s ongoing work to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms that enable the brain to adapt to experience

October 20, 2023

Research Findings

A flexible new tool both monitors and manipulates neural activity in the brains of large animals.

August 21, 2023

Research Findings

MIT researchers model and map how neurons across the tiny brain of a C. elegans worm encode its behaviors, revealing many new insights about the robustness and flexibility of its nervous system

July 1, 2023

New Research

A three-year fellowship will support Brady Weissbourd’s research on how the C. hemisphaerica jellyfish survives and thrives by constantly making new neurons.

Research quantifying “nociception” could help improve management of surgical pain

Fellowship enables study of how the brain makes memories of places

Technologies enable 3D imaging of whole human brain hemispheres at subcellular resolution

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

Microscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections

Plasticity and place: Study shows a key neural mechanism of remembering locations

Livestreaming the Brain

New Picower Investigator advances optical methods to study learning and memory

Award honors Elly Nedivi’s research on cortical plasticity

A multifunctional tool for cognitive neuroscience

Cracking the code that relates brain and behavior in a simple animal

New award funds study of a remarkable example of neural regeneration