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.

July 31, 2019

Research Findings

Whitehead, Picower team finds drugs that activate a key brain gene; initial tests show promise for rare, untreatable neurodevelopmental disorder

July 10, 2019

Research findings

‘GDspike’ a new option for estimating neural activity from calcium fluorescence

May 14, 2019

Science and the Arts

Todd Siler 'A.R.T.strings' series donated to Picower Institute by D.A. Duke

May 1, 2019

Awards & Honors

Faculty members Edward Boyden, Paula Hammond, and Aviv Regev recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

January 11, 2019

Research findings

Refinement of three-photon microscopy allows unprecendented neuroscience

January 2, 2019

News Feature

Project will reveal the entire human brain, down to subcellular features

December 17, 2018

Research findings

Technique for preserving tissue allows researchers to create maps of neural circuits with single-cell resolution

December 4, 2018

Research findings

Open-source system provides for fast, accurate neural decoding

November 13, 2018

Recent Events

Researchers take part in field's largest annual exchange of ideas

November 8, 2018

Picower People

Joel Blanchard wins 2018 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aging Research

October 25, 2018

Recent Events

Experts show advances in microscopy, tissue engineering, reporters of brain activity

July 11, 2018

News feature

Development research yields discoveries, insights, innovations