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After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task

November 03, 2025
… ‘rotations’… In the study, animals were given a visual working memory task, but sometimes they experienced … across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell …

New grant to study possibility of an immunotherapy for autism

November 02, 2023
… Center for the Social Brain at MIT, posits that the immune system can be harnessed to help treat behavioral symptoms of … Jun Huh of Harvard Medical School showed that the immune system “cytokine” molecule IL-17a, when applied to a … connections, or synapses, during the development of the visual system in young mice. Read more Research Article Many …

Symposium speaks to the many powers of brain rhythms

April 09, 2018

Celebrating 20 years of discovery, Picower Institute looks ahead to continuing impact

September 28, 2022
… brain would repurpose the auditory cortex to augment the visual cortex if cut off from input from the ears, Sur’s lab …

From Biological Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence

September 17, 2020
… off from input, it would instead rewire to help process visual input. The findings so intrigued colleagues in … the retina briefly reverts the activity of the visual system to that observed in early development and …

Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

April 28, 2025

MIT imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution

August 07, 2025
… cutting-edge imaging technologies, a new microscope system could enable unprecedentedly deep and precise … signal through the samples. So far, the team has produced visual images from the sound at various depths as they refine … connections, or synapses, during the development of the visual system in young mice. Read more Research Article Study …

Dozens from Picower present research at SfN

November 13, 2018

The model remodeler

March 14, 2022
… uscle s and bones strengthen with exercise and the immune system ‘learns’ from vaccines or infections , b ut none of … arbitrary world it encounters – ranging from tuning its visual perception in the early months to getting an A in … weaken the eye’s connections to the brain just as their visual circuitry was still developing. Such “monocular …

Study IDs important role for specific gene in 16p11.2 deletion autism

March 20, 2018
… vital function. It is particularly important in the immune system and is known to regulate other genes that are as well. … series of tests of MVP in a well-understood region in the visual cortex, where the brain processes sight from both … shutting one eye for a week. Normally, responses in visual cortex neurons related to the closed eye become …

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