Four professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Acemoglu, Brown, Grossman, and Grove bring to 77 the number of MIT faculty who are NAS members.
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A new way to monitor induced comas
Automated system could offer better control of patients’ brain states.
How the brain loses and regains consciousness
Study reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients.
Inside the unconscious brain
New study reveals brain-wave patterns that mark loss of consciousness during anesthesia.
Four from MIT win NIH grants
Brown, Gore, Ploegh and Zhang receive grants for innovative biomedical research.
Targeted nanoparticles show success in clinical trials
Tiny particles designed to home in on cancer cells achieve tumor shrinkage at lower doses than traditional chemotherapy.
Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells
Simply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory.
McGovern Institute to honor synapses expert Roger Nicoll
Named winner of the 2012 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
Neuroscientists link brain-wave pattern to energy consumption
New model of neuro-electric activity could help scientists better understand quiescent brain states such as coma.
How to reverse general anesthesia
Neuroscientists find that Ritalin could help bring surgical patients out of surgery much more quickly, with less grogginess.
Understanding the anesthetized brain
Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works.
Jaenisch to receive MGH's Warren Triennial Prize
Whitehead member, biology professor wins prize alongside Kyoto University professor.