Illuminating the brain
Neuroscientists’ new technique can stimulate brain cells, then reveal how those neurons influence the rest of the brain.
Understanding the anesthetized brain
Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works.
7 win presidential early career honors
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
Brain control
Ed Boyden is learning how to alter behavior by using light to turn neurons on and off.
Younger brains are easier to rewire
Study of blind patients supports the idea that there is a period early in a person’s development when brain regions can switch functions.
Protein linked to aging may boost memory and learning ability
Discovery could lead to new drugs to fight Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases.
Postdoc awarded Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society
Honored for thesis on neural correlates of visual illusions
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.
Earl Miller wins MERIT award from National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute of Mental Health
How the brain recognizes objects
A new computational model sheds light on the workings of the human visual system and could help advance artificial-intelligence research, too.