Neurobiology

synapse formation, maintenance, and pruning • learning and memory • behavior • neuronal cell fate and diversity • axonal guidance • diseases of the nervous system

Faculty

Martha Constantine-Paton

Frank B. Gertler

H. Robert Horvitz

Rudolf Jaenisch

Dennis Kim

Troy Littleton

Elly Nedivi

Edward Scolnick

Hazel Sive

Susumu Tonegawa

Matthew A. Wilson

Faculty Spotlight

Matthew A. Wilson

Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Picower Scholar; Associate Department Head for Education, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Matthew Wilson studies rodent learning and memory by recording and manipulating the activity of neurons during behavior and sleep.

Study shows how specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk

Real-time readouts of thinking in rats

How returning to a prior context briefly heightens memory recall

Biologists discover an unusual hallmark of aging in neurons

Only in Your Head

Antidepressant restores youthful flexibility to aging inhibitory neurons

Altering Neuronal Activity at Will

What separates the strong from weak among connections in the brain