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With sense of humility, responsibility new MIT postdoc begins HHMI fellowship

September 12, 2018

… a new postdoc at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory in the lab of Institute director Li-Huei Tsai with a …

As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing

July 10, 2018

… by researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory undermines the classic belief that separate cortical …

"Reanimation"

… a state of unconsciousness, where perception, movement and memory are all suspended. However, at present, the approach …

40Hz rhythms fight Alzheimer’s at the cellular and molecular level

… less brain atrophy and showed improvements in learning and memory. They also found that using 40Hz sound reduced amyloid and tau and improved learning and memory. Using light and sound together was especially …

Brown wins share of 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize

May 17, 2022

In Down syndrome cells, genome-wide disruptions mimic a senescence-like state

January 06, 2022

Study reveals how glial cells may play key epilepsy role

April 30, 2019

2019 Picower Lecture with Karel Svoboda, HHMI Janelia

… neural circuits underlying motor planning and short-term memory The brain is organized on multiple length scales. … mice in the context of motor planning and short-term memory. Motor planning plays key roles in motor control. … Motor planning is also a prospective form of short-term memory that links past events and future movements. During …

Sparse, small, but diverse neural connections help make perception reliable, efficient

February 02, 2023