Neuroscience

McGovern awards Scolnick Prize to HHMI investigator Nathans

Johns Hopkins professor to deliver lecture on April 27

April 23, 2009

Eight from MIT elected to AAAS

April 20, 2009

Music at MIT hitting all the right notes

April 15, 2009

This stimulator was used in a study to show that how humans feel the world can actually change how they see it --Â and vice versa. The device consists of a centimeter-square array composed of 60 pins to deliver precisely controlled vibrations to the fingertips.

How you feel the world impacts how you see it

Motion illusions reveal new insights into perception

April 9, 2009

Blocked enzyme reverses schizophrenia-like symptoms

MIT Picower study of mice could lead to drug treatments for the severe brain disorder

March 19, 2009

A 'contrast chimera' of Albert Einstein, in which MIT researchers took the negative of an image, then reversed the contrast of the eyes so they appeared normal.

A human failure, seen at face value

Research probes why we have difficulty recognizing faces in photo negatives

March 13, 2009

Whitehead Institute researchers reprogrammed human skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. After removing the reprogramming genes, the scientists used these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to create dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients.Â To confirm that the iPS cells had become dopam...

Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells

Whitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient

March 5, 2009

3-D day

21st century holography to be explored in MIT Museum forum

March 4, 2009

What drives brain changes in macular degeneration?

MIT study sheds light on underlying neural mechanism

March 3, 2009

Simons gift to fund autism research at MIT

February 11, 2009

Multiple genes implicated in autism

Discovery could lead to drugs targeting gene interactions

February 9, 2009

A possible treatment for Rett syndrome

MIT study suggests molecule can reverse some symptoms

February 9, 2009

Study links genetic, environmental causes of Parkinson's

February 1, 2009

The Graybiel Lab caused Parkinson's disease in rats by depleting dopamine in the right side of the striatum, the brain region that drives the abnormal movements in the disease, leaving the left side as the control. Treating the rats with L-DOPA induced dyskinesia...

What causes motor complications of Parkinson's treatment?

MIT study identifies genes linked to key side effect; work signals new approaches

January 29, 2009

Ed Boyden, seated, Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, middle, and Joost Bonsen, met in Boyden's lab to discuss the class they teach together on neurotechnology as a discipline.

Burgeoning field of neurotech spawns brainy businesses

MIT positioning students for rapidly growing discipline