Systems Neuroscience | Picower Institute

Picower Institute scientists seek to understand the complex circuits and processes that the brain constructs and employs so that we can perceive, learn, think, plan, and feel. To learn more about these or other areas of inquiry, select them under Research Topics and you'll find relevant Picower people, discoveries and events.

August 8, 2018

Research findings

How do we hold and juggle multiple pieces of information in mind?

July 23, 2018

Tapped as the Lister Brothers Career Development Professor

July 10, 2018

Research Findings

Calcium flux, channnels and time to mature are key

July 10, 2018

Research Findings

Six brain regions participate in a more blended way than has been appreciated

June 22, 2018

Research Findings

When a synapse strengthens, others immediately nearby weaken

April 5, 2018

Research Findings

At capacity coupling between key regions breaks down

March 1, 2018

News feature

Innovative insights, methods raise clnical potential of instilling brain waves

February 8, 2018

New research

Astrocytes may 'partner' with neurons to process information

January 26, 2018

Research findings

Brain rhythms act as a gate for information entering and leaving the mind.

January 15, 2018

Research findings

A new study by MIT neuroscientists suggests a model for how we gain volitional control of working memory

December 25, 2017

Research findings

Neuroscientists identify a circuit that helps the brain record memories of new locations.

October 23, 2017

Research Findings

Existence of “silent engrams” suggests that existing models of memory formation should be revised.