Principal Investigator Feng Zhang
Project Website http://zlab.mit.edu/index.html
The mammalian brain poses a formidable challenge to the study and treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases – owing to the complex interaction of genetic, epigenetic, and circuit-level mechanisms underlying pathogenesis. Technologies that facilitate functional dissection of distinct brain circuits are necessary for systematic identification of disease origin and therapy. The group is developing and applying molecular and optical technologies for probing brain function in health and disease. We hope that these new approaches will improve our understanding and treatment of brain diseases.
The mammalian brain poses a formidable challenge to the study and treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases – owing to the complex interaction of genetic, epigenetic, and circuit-level mechanisms underlying pathogenesis. Technologies that facilitate functional dissection of distinct brain circuits are necessary for systematic identification of disease origin and therapy. Our group is developing and applying molecular and optical technologies for probing brain function in health and disease. We hope that these new approaches will improve our understanding and treatment of brain diseases.