McGovern Institute for Brain Research awards Scolnick Prize to neurogeneticist Cori Bargmann
Bargmann honored for her work on the genetic and neural mechanisms that control behavior in the nematode C. elegans.
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Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Four MIT faculty win Presidential Early Career Awards
Buie, Buonassisi, Tisdale, and Tye honored with the U.S. government's highest award for young scientists and engineers.
MIT senior takes on double major in brain and cognitive sciences plus theater arts
Abra Shen pursues medicine and theater, and someday hopes to combine the two.
Neuroscientists reverse autism symptoms
Turning on a gene later in life can restore typical behavior in mice.
How severe maternal inflammation can lead to autism-like behavior
Immune molecules in infected mothers tied to brain and behavior abnormalities in offspring.
Edward Boyden wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Three neuroscientists share biomedicine prize for development of optogenetics
Diagnosing depression before it starts
Brain scans may identify children who are vulnerable to depression, before symptoms appear.
How neurons lose their connections
Scientists identify protein that allows brain cells to dampen their sensitivity.
Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move
“3-D physics engine” from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory simulates the human brain to infer physical properties.
Machines that learn like people
Algorithms could learn to recognize objects from a few examples, not millions; may better model human cognition.