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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-he… #neuroscience @ScienceMIT

Study in Cerebral Cortex by @MillerLabMIT: academic.oup.com/cercor/article…

Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment. A new study adds evidence that electric fields in the brain help to organize and shape underlying neural activity via “ephaptic coupling.” picower.mit.edu/news/electric-… #neuroscience @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT

Some of the most important things in life feel ordinary, until you stop and think about what makes them possible. A cure. A car. A comet. Someone right now is chasing answers to questions we haven't even asked yet. This is #CuriosityOnAMission. 🔬 What are you curious about? curiositymission.org

How do brains integrate sensory evidence over minutes to generate adaptive behaviors? A new Flavell lab preprint identifies C. elegans circuits that integrate aversive smells during foraging to control specific behavioral responses. biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #neuroscience

Congratulations to the newly minted *Dr.* Adam Eisen. He has that new Ph.D. smell. @adamjeisen @MIT_Picower

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

“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.

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-he… #neuroscience @ScienceMIT

Register for the next #ResearchInConversation webinar, "Development of Cortical Somatostatin Innervation," May 26, 12PM EDT 🔗 Register: neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-res… 📄 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…

Congratulations to Professor Emery N. Brown, who this morning received an honorary doctorate of medical sciences @Yale in recognition of his #neuroscience, #statistics and #anesthesiology research.

Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission

🐈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 @mitscience, @mit_bcs

Open access study in @iScience_CP led by Kyle Jenks: cell.com/iscience/fullt…

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-neu… #neuroscience @mitbrainandcog

Read a fascinating new interview in Nautilus with @MillerLabMIT and @LFeldmanBarrett based on their new paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, "Categorization is 'baked' into the brain." nautil.us/how-does-your-…

Happy "Cat-sual Fur-day"! The lab of Professor Myriam Heiman treated our whole building to a cat cafe featuring Torbie, Cleo, and Kinje. Hoomans also got Boba tea!

The company's headband uses EEG to measure brain activity while people enjoy their normal sleep routines. The data are processed by machine learning to monitor the effects of treatments, find signs of disease & create patient cohorts for clinical trials. news.mit.edu/2026/beacon-bi…

#AI for #Alzheimers: MIT-based team releases first AI foundation model for Alzheimer's prevention @AdrianNoriegaMD" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">picower.mit.edu/news/mit-based… @ArvidGollwitzer @AgingBrainMIT

Study in @CurrentBiology led by Cassi Estrem in the lab of Steve Flavell: cell.com/current-biolog…

How neurons sense bacteria in the gut: To understsand the mechanisms that enable the bacterial microbiome to influence brain function, a new study examines the mechanisms at work in a model “bacterial specialist,” C. elegans. picower.mit.edu/news/how-neuro… #neuroscience