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News
Neuropeptidergic signaling partitions arousal behaviors in zebrafish
Woods IG, Schoppik D, Shi VJ, Zimmerman S, Coleman HA, Greenwood J, Soucy ER, Schier AF.
Bidirectional thermotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans is mediated by distinct sensorimotor strategies driven by the AFD thermosensory neurons.
Luo L, Cook N, Venkatachalam V, Martinez-Velazquez LA, Zhang X, Calvo AC, Hawk J, Macinnis BL, Frank M, Ng JH, Klein M, Gershow M, Hammarlund M, Goodman MB, Colón-Ramos DA, Zhang Y, Samuel AD.
Neural dynamics underlying target detection in the human brain.
Bansal AK, Madhavan R, Agam Y, Golby A, Madsen JR, Kreiman G.
Temporal structure of motor variability is dynamically regulated and predicts motor learning ability.
Wu HG, Miyamoto YR, Castro LN, Olveczky BP, Smith MA.
Some Recent Publications
Topics range from plasticity in GABA circuits to how worms eat.
$25 million NSF grant to team including 6 CBS faculty
The NSF announced a $25 million award over 5 years to a new Science and Technology Center (STC) for Brains, Minds, and Machines. This STC will be a multi-institution collaboration, with a partnership between MIT and Harvard at its heart.
Upcoming Events
Special Seminar
Functional Mapping of Cognitive Functions Across Human Cerebral Cortex
Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley)
Mon 10 Mar noon - William James Hall 765
Neurolunch
Good noise or bad noise? The role of correlated variability in a probabilistic inference framework
Ralf Haefner (Born Lab)
Wed 12 Mar 1:00pm - NW 243
What We Do
Researchers in the Center for Brain Science (CBS) are discovering the structure and function of neural circuits. We are investigating how these circuits govern behavior and vary between individuals; learning how they change during development and aging; and deepening our understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and their therapies. To accomplish this mission, CBS brings neuroscientists together with physical scientists and engineers to develop and deploy new tools for neuroscience. Headquartered in the new Northwest Building on Oxford Street in Cambridge, CBS has strong links throughout the neuroscience community at Harvard University. Members are drawn from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Medical School, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Harvard-affiliated hospitals.
Neuroengineering: what tools we need
Neuroimaging: what underlies our thoughts
Light Microscopy: what the brain looks like
Electron Microscopy: what is the brain's nanostructure
Connectome Project: how the brain is wired
Swartz Program: how do we understand brain function
Education: what training we need
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