Taking an audience of hundreds on a tour around the body, seven speakers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory’s symposium “Circuits of Survival and Homeostasis” Oct. 21 shared their advanced and novel research about some of the nervous system’s most evolutionarily ancient functions.Introducing the symposium that she arranged with a picture of a man at a campfire on a frigid day, Sara Prescott, assistant professor in the Picower Institute and MIT’s departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, pointed out that the brain and the body cooperate…
