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

    ... in young children, according to a new study from MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Marijuana is known ... Mark F. Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience. The researchers investigated ...
  • MIT unlocks mystery behind brain imaging

    ... -standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first ... ," said study co-author James Schummers, Picower Institute postdoctoral associate. "A lot of what ...
  • 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 ...
  • Study identifies cells for spinal-cord repair

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

    ... researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal ... Meletis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their results could lead ...
  • Adult brain neurons can remodel connections

    ... ), 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 spectrum disorders remodels ...
  • MIT: Multiple genes implicated in autism

    ... -like symptoms in mice, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first ... of which are altered in ASDs," said Damon T. Page, a Picower Institute postdoctoral fellow and lead investigator ...
  • Autism Consortium members publish in PNAS: Mechanism, treatment for Rett syndrome -- top cause autism girls

    ... Sur, PhD, Newton Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute and Head of the MIT Department of Brain ... ; and Rudolf Jaenisch, PhD, Founding Member, Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at MIT, demonstrates for the first ...
  • 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 ... in our brains," said Tsai, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and director of the neurobiology program of the Stanley ...
  • MIT: Making waves in the brain

    ... Marie Carlén, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute. The trick for inducing gamma waves ... -authors were Konstantinos Meletis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute, and Ulf Knoblich, a graduate student ...
  • MIT-led team IDs gene key to Alzheimer's-like reversal

    ... team led by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact ... specifically," said Tsai, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Several HDAC inhibitors are currently ...
  • 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 ...
  • Why we learn more from our successes than our failures

    ... to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something ...
  • Why we learn more from our successes than our failures

    ... to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something ...

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