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.

June 1, 2020

Research Findings

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

May 28, 2020

Picower People

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

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