The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT focuses the talents of a diverse array of brain scientists on a single mission: unraveling the mechanisms that drive the quintessentially human capacity to remember and to learn, as well as related functions like perception, attention and consciousness.
Professor David Hubel and Professor Torsten Wiesel gave a special talk on Early Explorations of the Visual Cortex, followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Mark Bear on contemporary issues of visual cortex plasticity and visual information processing. This ...
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Kay Tye - "Activating dopamine neurons acutely rescues a stress-induced depression phenotype"
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Michael Meaney - "Effects of maternal care on gene regulation and behavior"
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Jack P. Shonkoff - "Leveraging the Biology of Adversity to Shape the Future of Early Childhood Policy"
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Li-Huei Tsai - "The convergence of epigenetics and stress in cognitive impairment and repair"
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Moshe Szyf - "The DNA methylation landscape of early life adversity."
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Andrew Garner - "Translating Developmental Science into Healthy Lives"
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Steve Hyman
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speakers:Matt Wilson - Opening Remarks Jane Isaacs-Lowe, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation"Rewiring the Trajectory for Vulnerable Children: A Foundation ...
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Susan Hockfield, President, MIT
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:John Eckenrode - "Preventing early adversity and improving the life chances of socially disadvantaged children & families"
Spring 2012 Picower Institute SymposiumNew Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental HealthApril 18, 2012Speaker:Bruce McEwen"The Brain on Stress: Adaptive Plasticity in Response to the Social Environment"
"The Lifelong Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Health and Society. Neurobiology & Epidemiology Converge"
Post Connectome Analyses of Circuit Dynamics: Variability, Modulation and Compensation in a Rhythmic Neuronal Circuit
The 3rd Annual Dana and Betty Fisher Retreat Retreat's Date: June 15, 2010 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum Organization: Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Each June, after the close of the academic year, the Picower Institute has traditionally ...
The 3rd Annual Dana and Betty Fisher Retreat Retreat's Date: June 15, 2010 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum Organization: Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Each June, after the close of the academic year, the Picower Institute has traditionally ...
The 3rd Annual Dana and Betty Fisher Retreat Retreat's Date: June 15, 2010 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum Organization: Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Each June, after the close of the academic year, the Picower Institute has traditionally ...
The 3rd Annual Dana and Betty Fisher Retreat Retreat's Date: June 15, 2010 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum Organization: Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Each June, after the close of the academic year, the Picower Institute has traditionally ...
The 4th Annual Dana and Betty Fisher Retreat Retreat's Date: June 15 to 16, 2011 Each June, after the close of the academic year, the Picower Institute has traditionally hosted a retreat for community members where faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and staff ...
The 5th Annual Dana and Betty Fisher Retreat Retreat's Date: June 25 to 26, 2012 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum Organization: Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Each June, after the close of the academic year, the Picower Institute has traditionally ...