Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance
Neuroscientists discover a circuit that helps redirect attention to focus on potential threats.
Neuroscientists discover a circuit that helps redirect attention to focus on potential threats.
Speakers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory fall symposium highlight advances in microscopy, tissue engineering, and reporters of brain activity.
Mahdi Ramadan and Alexi Choueiri’s common experiences as Lebanese evacuees led both to study the human brain at MIT.
A new model shows how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind.
Strategies to compensate for uncertainty help the brain succeed at difficult mental computations.
Technique could be used to detect light or electrical fields in living tissue.
Neurons in human and rat brains carry electrical signals in different ways, scientists find.
Picower Institute researchers find that a key protein linked to intellectual disability shapes electrical currents in neural connections.
A principled approach can lead to less need for drugs, especially opioids, Emery Brown and colleagues say.
Community event generates ideas for sparking innovative and ambitious plans to advance research in human and machine intelligence.
Inaugural director of The Quest discusses what's been accomplished since last spring's launch and what is on the horizon.
Advances in computer vision inspired by human physiological and anatomical constraints are improving pattern completion in machines.
New faculty join the departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
McGovern Institute scientist is recognized with award for outstanding and creative achievements made in the life and medical sciences.
MIT neuroscientist is among five people selected to receive the early career award.