Autism

Sarah Weigelt, a Simon's Initiative for Autism and the Brain at MIT postdoctoral fellow, poses with her Otto Hahn medal.

Postdoc awarded Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society

Honored for thesis on neural correlates of visual illusions

July 13, 2010

Many of Guoping Feng's lab members have joined him in moving to MIT, and the new lab at the McGovern Institute is already up and running.

Guoping Feng, expert on synapses and psychiatric disorders, joins MIT faculty

July 7, 2010

McGovern Institute video wins Telly Award

Given top honors in fundraising category

June 22, 2010

Yingxi Lin, an assistant professor in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, has been named a winner of the 2010 John Merck Scholar award.

Yingxi Lin named a John Merck scholar

Awarded a four-year, $300,000 grant

June 10, 2010

Previous studies showed that when monkeys are trained to categorize animals by distinguishing cats from dogs, some neurons in the prefrontal cortex become tuned to the concept of “cat” while others respond to the idea of “dog.” This new study trained the monkeys to perform two different categorization tasks — distinguishing cats from dogs and sedans from sports cars.

Multitasking is no problem for these brain cells

Scientists find that neurons in the brain’s planning center can handle more than one kind of job.

June 10, 2010

NIMH Director Tom Insel on Autism

Hosted by the Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT

March 29, 2010

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a powerful and noninvasive method for studying human brain activity.

McGovern Institute to acquire new brain imaging technology

March 9, 2010

Understanding autism

MIT researchers are working to explain a baffling condition.

March 4, 2010

"The Power of Basic Science Applied to Medical Progress"

November 16, 2009

PET Scans Showing PiB Uptake in the brain of a cognitively healthy person (left) and in the brain of a person with AD (right).

Back to (brain) basics

MIT neuroscientists are using their knowledge of the brain to generate promising treatments for autism, mental retardation and Alzheimer’s disease.

November 3, 2009

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