In the Media

"When we think of a concept or a memory — or have a perception or feeling — our brain's neurons quickly fire and talk to each other across connections called synapses. How these neurons interact with each other — and what the wiring is like between them — is key to understanding our identity, says Sebastian Seung, a professor of computational neuroscience at MIT."

"The Sloan conference has become the premier event for those who like to combine their rebounds with regression analyses to find new insights into sports."

"Rather than a handful of corporate pharmaceutical behemoths controlling the simple narrative that depression is a 'chemical imbalance,' YouTube has become the center of a much more complex mediascape in which everyday individuals get to tell their own stories about depression and drugs, which often challenge drug companies’ own dominant brain-based explanations."

"This is no ordinary economics book – it’s a graphic novel."

"The Massachusetts economy should grow modestly this year and slowly bring down the unemployment -- provided energy prices and the European debt crisis don’t spin out of control, a group of leading local economists said."

"If you are worried that spending all day answering text messages and opening e-mails is making you dumber, you might be right."

"But in a small pilot program, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created technologies that will ultimately enable cellphones to automatically detect and intervene when a person suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or substance abuse problems needs support."

"A police car with its lights flashing balanced on top of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Great Dome."

"The international branch campus phenomenon is relatively new, generating much news coverage and capturing the interest of many university presidents. But what is a branch campus?"

"Two leading science and educational advocacy groups set out a strategy Monday for producing more science and engineering graduates by bringing research universities into student-centered alliances with two-year, liberal arts and minority-serving institutions."

"Now a new game called Rope Revolution, developed by graduate student Lining Yao and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, uses an augmented-reality rope to allow players to fly a kite, ride a horse or skip with a partner across the globe."

"On Friday and Saturday this upcoming weekend, I suspect that attendees will be in for a welcomed treat as MIT’s Sloan School of Management will be hosting their Sloan Sports Analytics Conference."

"Inventory levels for single-family homes and condominiums in the Boston area are at an all-time low, signaling a shift to stability in the Hub’s housing market."

"Neuroscientist Mriganka Sur is deepening our understanding of how the brain works and the 'mis-wiring' that causes mental disease."

"The net is said to measure 'slam force G’s.'"