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… advances optical methods to study learning and memory January 2, 2024 Picower People Assistant Professor … Harvard lab of Adam Cohen, a physicist and chemist who was working to develop “genetically encoded voltage indicators.” … electrically excite or inhibit each other) and to get them working in awake, behaving animals. By 2020 she had …

… study advances understanding of visual recognition memory September 27, 2023 Research Findings Scientists have … way for a long-sought understanding of “visual recognition memory” (VRM). VRM is the ability to quickly recognize the … of Energy, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and The JPB Foundation funded the study. 38 21 22 15 …

… When the brain forms a memory of a new experience, neurons called engram cells encode the details of the memory and are later reactivated whenever we recall it. A new … , the director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the senior author of the study. Asaf Marco, an MIT …

… Neuroscientists identify brain circuit necessary for memory formation April 6, 2017 Research Findings New findings challenge standard model of memory consolidation. engram hippocampus prefrontal cortex … monitor engram cells for about two weeks, but they are working on adapting their technology to work for a longer …

… Blocking a key enzyme may reverse memory loss August 8, 2017 Research Findings MIT study … MIT researchers have now shown that they can reverse that memory loss in mice by interfering with the enzyme that forms … Tsai, director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the study’s senior author. Blocking that mechanism …

… Alzheimer’s degrades cells that cross hemispheres, visual memory suffers August 19, 2022 Research Findings New research … Alzheimer’s disease disrupts at least one form of visual memory by degrading a newly identified circuit that connects … team based at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, come from experiments in mice, but provide a …

… Neuroscientists find memory cells that help us interpret new situations April 6, … a new, similar event takes place hippocampus CA1 spatial memory https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0614-x … new experiences or learn new things. Tonegawa’s lab is now working on trying to find cell populations that might encode …

… Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery December 13, … of cellular mechanisms serving visual recognition memory, in which the brain learns what sights are familiar so … or “plasticity,” necessary for both visual recognition memory and amblyopia. Instead, the study has produced …