At an exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, current and alumni members described research at the forefront of neuroscience and beyond.
A new study finds a direct link between two problems that emerge in Alzheimer’s disease: a buildup of double-stranded breaks (DSBs) in the DNA of neurons and the inflammatory behavior of microglia, the brain’s immune cells.
Emery N. Brown of MIT was one of four recipients of the Gruber Foundation's 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize for influential contributions to the fields of computational and theoretical neuroscience.
MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative has awarded five seed grants after a competition among labs across the Institute. Awardees include Ann Graybiel, Thomas Heldt, Gloria Choi, Ritu Raman and Peter Dedon.
Regardless of which neurons are involved, the overall electric field they generate provides a stable and consistent signal, according to scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT and the University of London.