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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-… #neuroscience @ScienceMIT
ALT Myriam Heiman stands along blue glass windows in MIT's Building 46
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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/10.64898… #neuroscience
ALT A grayscale image shows a worm slithering from the upper right to the bottom left. It's head crosses a faint line labeled "copper boundary."
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MIT Picower Institute retweeted
Congratulations to the newly minted *Dr.* Adam Eisen. He has that new Ph.D. smell. @adamjeisen @MIT_Picower
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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
ALT Jessie Xiao, Evan Ruesch and Emma Ibanez smile as they stand along a railing in MIT's Building 46.
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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-… #neuroscience @ScienceMIT
ALT Myriam Heiman stands along blue glass windows in MIT's Building 46
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“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.
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MIT Picower Institute retweeted
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Register for the next #ResearchInConversation webinar, "Development of Cortical Somatostatin Innervation," May 26, 12PM EDT
🔗 Register: neuronline.sfn.org/scientifi…
📄 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18…
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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.
ALT Emery Brown in academic regalia stands facing the dais as his citation is read in front of a massive crowd at Yale's commencement.
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MIT Picower Institute retweeted
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
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🐈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
ALT A bund of people stand around a conference room table that is stacked with boba teas
ALT Close-up on the hands of a man as he colors in a wooden cat with a magic marker
ALT A multi-colored cat stands on a cat tree while being petted by two adoring onlookers
ALT A man in a grey MIT hat leans over to offer a treat to a dark grey cat in the recess of a fuzzy box
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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 @mitbrainandcog
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Open access study in @iScience_CP led by Kyle Jenks: cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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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-brai…
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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!
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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-bio…
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#AI for #Alzheimers: MIT-based team releases first AI foundation model for Alzheimer's prevention picower.mit.edu/news/mit-bas… @ArvidGollwitzer @AgingBrainMIT
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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-neu… #neuroscience
ALT Little worms wriggle through a red-tinted gel.
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Study in @CurrentBiology led by Cassi Estrem in the lab of Steve Flavell: cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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A new study of Rett syndrome highlights potential for personalized treatment. MIT researchers tracked how two different mutations alter neural circuit development in organoids and how each could be addressed with distinct potential therapeutics. picower.mit.edu/news/rett-sy…
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MIT Picower Institute retweeted
Apr 14
Join us, if you will, at the MIT Consciousness Club on Thursday April 16 at 12pm (EDT)
"Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain"
Nadine Dijkstra (Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL)
Zoom link:
sites.google.com/view/mit-co…
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