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… goal of Institute research is to understand behaviors and cognitive processes including learning, memory, emotion, reasoning and consciousness. Systems Neuroscience A strong focus at the Institute is studying the …

Unique visual stimulation may be new treatment for Alzheimer’s

December 07, 2016

… patients, says Li-Huei Tsai, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience, director of MIT’s Picower Institute for … professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the McGovern … which we have known for a long time are linked to cognitive function, play a critical role in the capacity of …

Brain networks encoding memory come together via electric fields, study finds

July 10, 2023

Bigger than a Building

March 10, 2021

… group numbering at least 440 men and women has advanced neuroscience knowledge and, in turn, has been shaped as a … Professor Gloria Choi helped to kindle her love of neuroscience. “The time at BCS/Picower really helped me in … an Institute Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, who offered frequent encouragement. Fan …

Myriam Heiman

… Heiman Myriam Heiman John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Neuroscience Investigator in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology … the Picower Institute and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Huntington's Disease Neuro …

Young Picower scientists present projects at ‘SfN’

November 12, 2021

… learning and memory. Even though this year’s Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting was entirely online, it remained …

Brain waves guide us in spotlighting surprises

November 23, 2020

… waves, or rhythms, originating in the brain’s frontal cognitive regions tamped down neural activity associated with … over the cortex,” said Earl Miller , Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and co-senior author of the study …

Brain Rhythms in Health & Disease Symposium

… experts in cellular, circuit, systems, and behavioral neuroscience to share and discuss the advances and challenges …

Susumu Tonegawa

Effects of general anesthetics on the brain

… Though it has not been traditionally studied with a neuroscience foundation, general anesthesia works in the … during consciousness. Dedicated to establishing a rigorous neuroscience basis for the anesthesiology field, Emery N. … Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, has helped to lead numerous discoveries …