Wired for habit
Researchers discover neurons in the brain that weigh costs and benefits to drive formation of habits.
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Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Toward smarter selection of therapy for psychiatric disorders
Researchers find that brain scans can predict the success of treatment for social anxiety disorder.
How language gives your brain a break
Study: In dozens of languages, words that work together stay together.
MRIs for a more peaceful world
Neuroscientists and political scientists join together to advance peace and reconciliation.
Uncovering the mechanism of our oldest anesthetic
MIT researchers reveal brainwave changes in patients receiving nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas.”
Uncovering a dynamic cortex
Neuroscientists show that multiple cortical regions are needed to process information.
Recalling happier memories can reverse depression
Artificially reactivating positive memories could offer an alternative to traditional antidepressants.
National Geographic identifies six from MIT community as "Emerging Explorers"
Students, researchers, and alumni among 14 honored as "young trailblazers."
DNA breakage underlies both learning, age-related damage
Process that allows brains to learn and remember also leads to degeneration with age.
How we make emotional decisions
Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that controls decisions that induce high anxiety.
Seeking deeper understanding of how the brain works
Edward Boyden develops techniques to study the brain, and how it operates, in finer detail.
How the brain tells good from bad
Neuroscientists identify neurons in the amygdala that assign emotions to experience.