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… has pinpointed exact brain circuits that associate the memory of an experience with a feeling about it. When his lab … could be manipulated to change a negative feeling about a memory into a positive one, messages from people with anxiety … lab led by postdoctoral Picower Fellow Baovi Vo has been working to further bolster the evidence base for which …

… director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and senior author of the study describing miBrains, … to miBrains to more closely model characteristics of working brains, such as leveraging microfluidics to add flow … the Halis Family, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and an anonymous donor. --By David Orenstein, The …

… researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT have revealed a fundamental model for how neural activity during development builds properly working connections. Understanding how that happens is …

… Tsai , director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI), in her … susceptibility to infection, and so her lab is now working in mouse models to study airway-to-brain neurons …

… makes vision feel seamless. vision visual system working memory attention … even for high-level cognitive functions like attention and working memory,” the authors wrote. The evidence is apparent …

… health response. Down syndrome hippocampus 40Hz spatial memory synapse formation … such research at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Alana Down Syndrome Center at MIT , scientists … with significant improvements on three standard short-term memory tests—two involving distinguishing novelty from …

… Circuit Genetics in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and an HHMI Investigator. In 2020 Tonegawa’s lab … (because it gets a little foot shock there), the fear memory is encoded by neurons in the anterior of the … that express the gene Ppp1r1b encode a new fear extinction memory that overcomes the original dread. Notably those same …

… right places even when multiple neuromodulators are all working in parallel in a somehow perfectly balanced soup. … many researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Looking across different model organisms, different … combinatorial nature of these neuromodulators.” Modulating memory While Flavell is studying neuromodulators …