Neurotechnology | Picower Institute

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.

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

June 11, 2020

Research Findings

As part of study, team invents new open-source microscopy platform

May 18, 2020

Research Findings

By making brain and other tissues reversibly stretchable or compressible, ELAST allows labeling probes to infuse more quickly

April 6, 2020

Research Findings

Neurons that store abstract representations of past experiences are activated when a new, similar event takes place

April 1, 2020

News Feature

Institute researchers are advancing their work in many ways despite time away from the lab required to corral Covid-19

March 13, 2020

Research Feature

Research on how the brain processes sight has told neuroscientists much about how the brain works more broadly

February 20, 2020

New Research

New NIH grant funds study that will span receptors, cells, the whole brain and behavior

December 16, 2019

News Feature

Stem cell, genetic technologies enable sophisticated studies of human brain cells and brain "organoids"

October 18, 2019

Events

Experts from around the world discuss "Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition"