Science news articles about 'picower institute'

  • Li-Huei Tsai to direct Picower Institute

    Picower Professor of Neuroscience and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Li-Huei Tsai will succeed Mark Bear as director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
  • MIT study suggests caution on new anti-obesity drug in kids

    ... compounds in children,” wrote lead author Mark F. Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience. The researchers investigated plasticity—the brain’s ability to change ...
  • MIT unlocks mystery behind brain imaging

    In work that solves a long-standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes ...
  • Brain scientists spot nature/nurture gene link

    Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory found that a previously unsuspected set of genes links nature and nurture during a crucial period of brain development. The results ...
  • Study identifies cells for spinal-cord repair

    A researcher at MIT`s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells ...
  • MIT identifies cells for spinal-cord repair

    ... ) Biology, is by Konstantinos Meletis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their results could lead to drugs that might restore some ...
  • Adult brain neurons can remodel connections

    ... National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Elly Nedivi, associate professor of neurobiology at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and colleagues found that a type of neuron implicated in autism ...
  • MIT: Multiple genes implicated in autism

    By pinpointing two genes that cause autism-like symptoms in mice, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that multiple, interacting genetic risk ...
  • Autism Consortium members publish in PNAS: Mechanism, treatment for Rett syndrome -- top cause autism girls

    ... led by Autism Consortium members Mriganka Sur, PhD, Newton Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute and Head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; and Rudolf Jaenisch, PhD, ...
  • MIT: Blocked enzyme reverses schizophrenia-like symptoms

    Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that inhibiting a key brain enzyme in mice reversed schizophrenia-like symptoms. The finding, reported in the March 20 issue ...
  • MIT: Making waves in the brain

    ... Feng Zhang at Stanford University. Other co-authors were Konstantinos Meletis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute, and Ulf Knoblich, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Brain and ...
  • MIT-led team IDs gene key to Alzheimer's-like reversal

    A team led by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact gene responsible for a 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease ...
  • Sleep helps build long-term memories

    New work by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory shows how the sleeping brain replays experiences like video clips, thereby turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting ...
  • Why we learn more from our successes than our failures

    If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from ...
  • Why we learn more from our successes than our failures

    ... , Mass. -- If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only ...

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