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.

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

October 26, 2020

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Award cites major contributions to statistical analysis of brain activity and advancing the neuroscience of anesthesia

October 5, 2020

Research Findings

Modifications to chromosomes in “engram” neurons control the encoding and retrieval of memories

September 21, 2020

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Sur Lab postdoc Vincent Breton-Provencher will use award to study neurobiology underlying attention

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

August 25, 2020

New Research

MIT, MGH join forces to test whether ‘GENUS’ stimulation of 40Hz rhythms can reduce disease pathology before onset of symptoms

June 11, 2020

Research Findings

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

June 1, 2020

Research Findings

Lateral septum encodes spatial information with a special emphasis on where the reward lies

May 28, 2020

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Award will help researchers understand how the body’s microbiome influences the brain

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