October 5, 2021
![A blue and green hued illustration shows a brain drawn with white lines and a double helix extending to the right from its back. Ones and zeroes float through the image.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_display_1x_wide/public/AdobeStock_218724187.jpeg?h=9868e964&itok=59X-6d2E)
As this gallery of featured people and projects illustrates, Picower Institute scientists study brain structure and function at scales from genes and molecules to cells, circuits and regions. They also study the behaviors and cognitive processes that result, and seek to uncover how disruptions at different scales can result in developmental, psychiatric or neurodegenerative disorders. They employand often inventthe newest technologies in their work. To learn more about any of these specific areas, click "Research Topics" above, select areas of interest, and you'll find relevant Picower people, discoveries and events.