Neurobiology

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

Faculty

Elly Nedivi

William R. (1964) and Linda R. Young Professor of Neuroscience

Elly Nedivi studies the mechanisms underlying brain circuit plasticity — characterizing the genes and proteins involved, as well as visualizing synaptic and neuronal remodeling in the living mouse brain.

With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward

Neurobiology

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

Elly Nedivi

With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward

Whitehead Institute team develops new method to study human brain cells

MicroRNAs work together to tune gene expression in the brain

Study finds hub linking movement and motivation in the brain

Tasting Light

BRAIN grant will fund new tools to study astrocytes

How brain cells pick which connections to keep

Speeding up drug discovery for brain diseases