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.

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.

February 20, 2019

Picower People

Gloria Choi's research has connected maternal infection with neurodevelopmental disorders

January 14, 2019

Research findings

Prefrontal cortex may be able to regulate arousal in locus coreuleus

January 11, 2019

Research findings

Refinement of three-photon microscopy allows unprecendented neuroscience

January 2, 2019

News Feature

Project will reveal the entire human brain, down to subcellular features

December 20, 2018

Research findings

Study may lead to a better understanding of the digestive tract’s nervous system

December 11, 2018

Research findings

Going back to a scene makes engram cells more electrically excitable

December 4, 2018

Research findings

Open-source system provides for fast, accurate neural decoding