MIT Picower Institute

🧠 If you are looking to work in #neuroscience #research, check out and bookmark our #careers page right now because we have 10 ‼️ openings listed (and more to come). picower.mit.edu/about/careers

Join us, if you will, for the MIT Consciousness Club. Tomorrow, March 19th at noon. "Linking Past and Present Worlds in the Visual Control of Behaviour" Melvyn Goodale (Department of Psychology, Western University) Zoom link here: sites.google.com/view/mit-consc… #neuroscience

New discovery! Different anesthetics all seem to push the brain into unconsciousness in the same way: Activity is destabilized and dominated by slow waves. This could block signals. cell.com/cell-reports/f… #neuroscience @MIT_Picower @mitbrainandcog @mcgovernmit @ScienceMIT

Research led by Adam Eisen in @MillerLabMIT and @FieteGroup published today in @CellReports: cell.com/cell-reports/f…

New discovery! Three different anesthetics each similarly destabilize neural activity. The insight could lead to a universal anesthesia delivery system to monitor patient consciousness and dosing more effectively. picower.mit.edu/news/three-ane… #neuroscience @mitbrainandcog @mitscience

Tsai has led a period of substantial growth for the Institute: From 11 labs to 16, and from a community of about 200 faculty, students and staff to a community of about 400.

Li-Huei Tsai, who has led The Picower Institute since 2009, will step down as director at the end of the academic year. Her decision frees her to focus on research, including her leadership of MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative and the Alana Down Syndrome Center picower.mit.edu/news/after-16-…

Thank you to everyone who has given so far. And if you haven't, there's still a little time! Fight neurodegeneration: bit.ly/24hour-aging-b… Advance brain therapies: bit.ly/brain-therapies #MIT24

#MIT24 Today is MIT's 24-Hour Challenge! This is your opportunity to support the Aging Brain Initiative with *any* amount . Help us make our 300 donor goal to direclty fund ABI research. Thank you! mit24hourchallenge.mightycause.com/story/Aging-Br…

Today! Please support our work to make discoveries to fight neurodegenerative diseases (bit.ly/24hour-aging-b…) and to build a new initiative to turn lab discoveries into treatments (bit.ly/brain-therapies). Giving ANY amount will help us unlock generous challenge gifts. #MIT24

Last night @Chronicle5 aired an update on local technologies to help people with Alzheimer's, including by Li-Huei Tsai's lab wcvb.com/article/alzhei…

👀Hey Boston area followers: Tonight's edition of Chronicle on Channel 5 (@WCVB) is scheduled to check in on some of our Alzheimer's research. 📺 Tune in if you get a chance. wcvb.com/chronicle

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🗓️On March 12, by giving ANY amount to our two #MIT24 challenges, you can help us make discoveries to fight neurodegenerative diseases (bit.ly/24hour-aging-b…) and build a new initiative to turn lab discoveries into treatments (bit.ly/brain-therapies).

Research in @molpsychiatry: #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4138…

MIT neuroscientists in @SurLabMIT have found that mutations that cause Rett syndrome undermine the structural integrity of developing blood vessels. The new study points to a potential treatment. picower.mit.edu/news/rett-synd… @ScienceMIT @mitbrainandcog

Wow, that was a lot of snow! ❄ Snow much snow. But quick work by @MIT Facilities Grounds Services has pushed the snow wall back from the doors so we'll be back to neurosciencing tomorrow! Photo by Layla Gonzalez.

Fully study in @eLife by the labs of Steven Flavell and Brady Weissbourd: elifesciences.org/articles/108159

Three new neural network-based tools enable fast, accurate alignment and annotation of images even in wiggly subjects🪱🪼. The tools might offer a way to automate cell tracking in other imaging datasets, too. picower.mit.edu/news/worms-and… #neuroscience #AI @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT

Study from team @MIT @Harvard + @MassGeneralNews unveils #AI -powered software capable of segmenting 8 distinct bundles in any diffusion MRI sequence, @mit_hst MEMP PhD grad student @olchanyi Prof Emery Brown @MIT_IMES @MIT_Picower @mitbrainandcog more: bit.ly/4bWZeQ3