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Open access study in iScience led by Kyle Jenks: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
“I am honored to take on this role to support the Institute’s exceptional scientists and trainees as they pursue discoveries that deepen our understanding of the brain and improve human health,” Heiman says.
Register for the next #ResearchInConversation webinar, "Development of Cortical Somatostatin Innervation," May 26, 12PM EDT
🔗 Register: https://neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-research/development-of-cortical-somatostatin-innervation
📄 Read the paper: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1870-25.2026
Congratulations to three students who have earned MIT HEALS Graduate Fellowships! Jessie Xiao (studying alpha synuclein in Parkinson's disease), Evan Ruesch (developing tools for optical physiology), & Emma Ibanez (studying sensory neurons in reproductive system). #neuroscience #brain
The rules neurons follow to make sense of what we see. A new study in mice by @SurLabMIT discerns the rules that neurons use to turn what could be a cacophony of input into a functional arrangement for processing vision. picower.mit.edu/news/rules-n... #neuroscience
Myriam Heiman named the director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Heiman, who studies neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, will lead the institute beginning July 1. picower.mit.edu/news/myriam-... #neuroscience
Congratulations to Professor Emery N. Brown, who this morning received an honorary doctorate of medical sciences from Yale in recognition of his #neuroscience, #statistics and #anesthesiology research.
Read a fascinating new interview in Nautilus with @earlkmiller.bsky.social and @lisafeldmanbarrett.com based on their new paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, "Categorization is 'baked' into the brain." nautil.us/how-does-you...
🐈Amid finals and in advance of graduation, two of our most prestigious 'Purr-fessors,' Kinje and Torbie, held office hours at a cat cafe today, arranged the lab of Professor Myriam Heiman. Attendees also enjoyed boba, macarons and cat crafts. Thanks to MIT's School of Science!
A recap of our recent symposium "The Neuroscience of Democracy," ICYMI: picower.mit.edu/news/symposi...
Combining insights from the debates of American civics to the discoveries of neuroscience labs, experts honed in on ways that brain science research could inform efforts to improve political participa...
