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… and director of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and … populations In 2014, Tonegawa’s lab  identified a brain circuit  that links memories with positive or negative emotions. This circuit connects neurons in the hippocampus, which remember …

… the use of genetic approaches to dissecting visual circuit function in fruit flies, merging approaches from …

… too, takes inspiration from her time at MIT.  Studying the circuit mechanisms controlling innate social behaviors as an …