Understanding the anesthetized brain
Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works.
Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works.
Neuroscientists show that brain scans can predict whether children’s reading ability will improve.
Neuroscientists find that the same face may look male or female, depending on where it appears in a person’s field of view.
Study suggests adding a face shield to military helmets would help more soldiers avoid blast-induced brain injuries.
Ed Boyden is learning how to alter behavior by using light to turn neurons on and off.
New study shows that costs and rewards of behavior help the brain form optimal habits.
Study of blind patients supports the idea that there is a period early in a person’s development when brain regions can switch functions.
Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves, in live animals.
Presented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival
Sirtuins appear to control production of the devastating protein fragments that form plaques in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
Discovery could lead to new drugs to fight Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases.
Honored for thesis on neural correlates of visual illusions