@MIT_Picower

Dedicated to understanding the mechanisms underlying learning and memory and related brain functions and disease. Profile art by @toddsiler

 Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Joined May 2010
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We are heartbroken to have lost our founder, who provided so much inspiration, but we are all honored to carry on the science he loved so much. picower.mit.edu/news/picower… #neuroscience #biology

Picower Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Tonegawa made landmark discoveries about how the immune system generates antibody diversity and how the brain forms memories.

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💼We're hiring! We're looking for an Executive Director to help drive scientific strategy and research development while leading our administrative and financial teams. picower.mit.edu/about/career… #neuroscience #careers #jobs

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Join us a week from today for our afternoon @AgingBrainMIT symposium: Innovation for the Aging Brain. Six great talks + Posters. Registration will close on Monday: picower.mit.edu/events/aging… #neuroscience #aging
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We’ve been so touched to hear from so many people since our founder Susumu Tonegawa died. As a tribute to his legacy, MIT has established The Susumu Tonegawa Memorial Fund. Gifts can be made via giving.mit.edu/susumu-tonega… or by emailing [email protected].
In a black and white picture, Susumu Tonegawa sits at a table piled with papers and writes on a pad with a pen. Behind him is a whiteboard full of math.

ALT In a black and white picture, Susumu Tonegawa sits at a table piled with papers and writes on a pad with a pen. Behind him is a whiteboard full of math.

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New study in @iScience_CP: How the brain keeps its options straight at decision time: Ensembles of neurons encode information to maximize clarity throughout the process. picower.mit.edu/news/how-bra… #neuroscience @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT
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Study led by Huidi Li in the lab @MillerLabMIT: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Aging Brain @ MIT@AgingBrainMIT
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Register for "Innovation for the Aging Brain", our 2026 ABI Fall Symposium at MIT. September 25th Talks: 1-5 PM, Poster Session: 5-6 PM with reception. Attendance is free and open to the public with registration. 🧠🧪 picower.mit.edu/events/aging…
Poster for the ABI Fall Symposium on September 25th 2026. Speakers are: Alan Jasanoff, Oleta Johnson, Laura Kiessling, Earl Miller, Ritu Raman, Giovanni Traverso.

ALT Poster for the ABI Fall Symposium on September 25th 2026. Speakers are: Alan Jasanoff, Oleta Johnson, Laura Kiessling, Earl Miller, Ritu Raman, Giovanni Traverso.

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A new atlas of the striatum reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction and other disorders. It could guide new drug treatments. youtu.be/eQmEKrBMvmo #neuroscience @scienceMIT @mitbrainandcog

A 'roadmap' of the striatum

Picower Institute postdoc Raleigh Linville, lead author of a new st...

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News story: picower.mit.edu/news/atlas-b… Study in @CellCellPress: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.…

Atlas of the brain’s striatum could guide researchers to new drug treatments

A new study reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction, and other disorders.

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New theory! The brain's ability to generate cognition and consciousness arises from analog computations carried out by electrical waves. Review in JNeurosci led by @MillerLabMIT: picower.mit.edu/news/cogniti… #neuroscience @ScienceMIT @mitbrainandcog
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Study with co-authors Scott Brincat and Jefferson Roy: jneurosci.org/content/46/33/…

Analog Cognition and Consciousness

Cognition and consciousness may arise from bidirectional interactions between neuronal spiking and rhythmic electric field activity (brain waves). Goal-directed behavior relies on top-down control to...

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Flexible brain circuits can switch between different tasks. Neuroscientists have discovered circuits in the prefrontal cortex that can be repurposed to store different types of information. picower.mit.edu/news/flexibl… #neuroscience
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Study led by Yuma Osako in the lab of Mriganka Sur: nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Reusable modular architecture enables flexible cognitive operations in the mouse brain and artifi...

Nature Neuroscience - Mice flexibly reuse neurons specialized for stimulus processing and memory maintenance, regardless of the content, providing evidence for reusable modular organization in the...

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High-speed microscopy reveals electrical activity across the brain. New technique, demonstrated in zebrafish, could help scientists learn how the entire brain works as a whole. picower.mit.edu/news/high-sp… #neuroscience
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+Study led by labs of Ed Boyden and Matt Wilson: nature.com/articles/s41592-0…

Voltage imaging of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish

Nature Methods - Voltage imaging across much of the zebrafish brain is achieved at 200.8 Hz, by optimizing a remote-scanning light-sheet microscope.

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New in @ScienceMagazine: A brain circuit that keeps tabs on what just happened to aid judgement of what’s happening now picower.mit.edu/news/brain-c… #neuroscience @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT
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Study led by Ning Leow in @SurLabMIT: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

A thalamocortical circuit encoding deviations from sensory history

Prior expectations guide attention and support perceptual filtering during decision-making. In mice performing a visual discrimination task, choices depended on trial-by-trial differences between...

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Every year, undergrads from across the country visit labs in @MITBiology and @mitbrainandcog labs (and more) to gain research experience. Learn more about the MSRP-Bio program through the lens of two students' experiences in the lab of @JTroyLittleton. youtube.com/watch?v=tpiaFedw…

Summer research in MSRP-Bio

Every year, undergraduates from all over the country visit in MIT L...

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Congratulations to Emery N. Brown on earning an honorary doctorate from @UDC_gal honoring his research on anesthesia and the brain! udc.gal/gl/novas/Marisol-Soe… #neuroscience
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With Mass. Women’s Health Award, team will study how Alzheimer’s risk varies with hormone replacement picower.mit.edu/news/mass-wo… #Alzheimers #WomensHealth @MALifeSciences @AgingBrainMIT
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New Results! A biologically grounded model predicts how drug changes brain circuits and even uncover new biomarkers without being trained on data Mechanistic simulation identifies predictive dose-dependent biomarkers of propofol anesthesia doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.10.… #neuroscience
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