A hunger for social contact
Neuroscientists find that isolation provokes brain activity similar to that seen during hunger cravings.
Neuroscientists find that isolation provokes brain activity similar to that seen during hunger cravings.
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency award funding to 13 AI-focused projects.
A direct comparison of sensory and higher-order thalamic circuits reveals fundamental differences in how they control the cerebral cortex.
“We need more technologists in the room while policies are formulated,” says the MIT senior.
During her time at MIT, senior Ayesha Ng’s interests have expanded from cellular biology to the social systems that shape public health.
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.
Norepinephrine-producing neurons in the locus coeruleus produce attention focus, impulse control via two distinct connections to prefrontal cortex.
Gurrein Madan, brain and cognitive sciences graduate student and MathWorks Fellow, studies gut–brain signaling with implications for human health.
Research on mice suggests aging affects a brain circuit critical for learning to make some types of decisions.
Award cites major contributions to statistical analysis of brain activity and advancing the neuroscience of anesthesia.
Recurrent processing via prefrontal cortex, necessary for quick visual object processing in primates, provides a key insight for developing brain-like artificial intelligence.
By accounting for sweat physiology, method can make better use of electrodermal activity for tracking subconscious changes in physical or emotional state.
Tool developed at MIT simultaneously measures chemical and electrical brain signals, revealing unexpectedly complex relationship between brain signals.
Astrocytes with the APOE4 gene variant show deficits of a key cellular function, but overexpressing the gene PICALM overcame the defect.
Modifications to chromosomes in “engram” neurons control the encoding and retrieval of memories.