Systems Neuroscience

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.

Scientists identify neurons devoted to social memory

September 29, 2016
Research Findings
Cells in the hippocampus store memories of acquaintances, a new study reports.

Eight School of Science faculty appointed to named professorships

September 22, 2016
None

Decoding hidden dreams

August 30, 2016
Research Findings
Neuroscientists decrypt the sleeping brain to reveal hidden memories.

The Picower Institute Fall 2026 Symposium "Evolutionary Design of the Nervous System"

November 4
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

43 Vassar Street
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002, Third Floor of MIT Building 46)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Event Type: Symposia
Availability: Public Event

The 2026 Picower Lecture with Richard L. Huganir, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

43 Vassar St
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002, Third Floor of MIT Building 46)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Event Type: The Picower Lectures
Availability: Public Event

Special Seminar with Hee-Sup Shin, MD, PhD, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)

August 14
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

43 Vassar St
46-3310, Picower Seminar Room (Third Fl of MIT Building 46)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Event Type: Seminars
Availability: Public Event

Neuroscience of Democracy Symposium

May 19
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

43 Vassar Street
3rd Floor, Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Event Type: Symposia
Availability: Public Event

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Larry Zipursky, PhD, UCLA, "Strategies and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Brain Wiring"

May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

43 Vassar Street
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002, Third Floor of MIT Building 46)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Event Type: Colloquium
Availability: Public Event

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Priya Rajasethupathy, PhD, The Rockefeller University, "Memory Across Time Scales"

April 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

43 Vassar Street
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002, Third Floor of MIT Building 46)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Event Type: Colloquium
Availability: Public Event

Aging Brain Seminar with Bruce Yankner, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, "Lithium and the Biology of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease"

April 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

43 Vassar Street
Picower Seminar Room (46-3310 - Third Floor)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Event Type: Aging Brain Seminars
Availability: Public Event