Working with purpose
Work-study program creates priceless relationships between MIT students and the local community.
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Brain and Cognitive Sciences
A new player in appetite control
Brain cells that provide structural support also influence feeding behavior, study shows.
Professor Emeritus Whitman Richards dies at 84
Longtime professor and beloved advisor was known for advances in experimental and theoretical studies of vision, perception, and cognition.
A delicate balance between positive and negative emotion
Neuroscientists identify two neuron populations that encode happy or fearful memories.
From MIT to the national stage
MassJAS Symposium at MIT selects talented high school students to showcase their science research at the 2017 AAAS annual meeting.
Scientists identify neurons devoted to social memory
Cells in the hippocampus store memories of acquaintances, a new study reports.
Four MIT professors named inaugural Faculty Scholars
New program from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Simons Foundation, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports early-career scientists.
Newly discovered neural connections may be linked to emotional decision-making
Researchers suspect cells in this brain circuit could also be targets of Parkinson’s disease.
How the brain builds panoramic memory
Neuroscientists identify brain regions key to linking different views of our surroundings.
Faculty at MIT and beyond respond forcefully to an article critical of Suzanne Corkin
More than 200 members of the scientific community sign a letter supporting the late MIT neuroscientist; department head issues a statement.
Study finds brain connections key to reading
Pathways that exist before kids learn to read may determine development of brain’s word recognition area.
Kay Tye receives Freedman Prize for Exceptional Basic Research
Neuroscientist recognized by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for project on neural circuits for anxiety control.
Researchers identify genome-modifying enzyme linked to Rett Syndrome
Deletion of the HDAC3 gene in the brains of mice causes cognitive and social impairments consistent with Rett Syndrome.