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.

January 15, 2020

Research findings

The same neurons responsible for encoding reward also form new memories to suppress fearful ones

January 2, 2020

Research Findings

Review in Science traces progress in studying the neural substrate for storing memories

December 13, 2019

Research Findings

Plasticity underlying amblyopia found in visual cortex layer 4

October 18, 2019

Events

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

October 7, 2019

News Feature

25 Years of Picower Institute research

October 4, 2019

Research findings

Amyloid emerges early in deep regions such as the mammillary body and marches outward along specific circuits

September 19, 2019

Research findings

Detailed observations in the lateral septum indicate region processes movement, reward information to help direct behavior

July 1, 2019

News Feature

Studies yield new insights into behavior, development, anesthesia

April 30, 2019

New Research

Gifts to MIT and Harvard Medical School totaling $9 million will fund independent research on cannabinoid’s influence on brain health and behavior

April 4, 2019

Research Findings

Finding could improve development of personalized psychiatric treatments

March 17, 2019

Brain Awareness Week 2019

Picower researchers mark Brain Awareness Week 2019

March 14, 2019

Research findings

Noninvasive treatment can improve Alzheimer’s symptoms such as memory loss and amyloid plaque buildup in mice.