A potential new Alzheimer’s drug represses the harmful inflammatory response of the brain’s immune cells, reducing disease pathology, preserving neurons, and improving cognition in preclinical tests.
MIT professor discusses the US surgeon general’s recent advisory and why scrolling social media can lead to depression and anxiety.
Author and African American studies scholar Ruha Benjamin urges MIT Libraries staff to “re-imagine the default settings” of technology for a more just future.
Symposium speakers describe numerous ways to promote prevention, resilience, healing, and wellness after early-life stresses.
Keynote speaker Bror Saxberg SM ’85, PhD ’89 encourages understanding learners and their contexts.
But the harm from a discriminatory AI system can be minimized if the advice it delivers is properly framed, an MIT team has shown.
This year's fellows will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research, AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.
Advisor engages students, builds community, and promotes well-being and health.
Liam Gale, new program administrator for the Student Veteran Success Office, describes experiences of student veterans and how the Institute supports them.
Professor Emma Teng teamed up with Lead Wellness Instructor Sarah Johnson to create an entirely new type of class at MIT.
Targeting these circuits could offer a new way to reverse motor dysfunction and depression in Parkinson’s patients.
Chih-Wei Joshua Liu ’22 is an aspiring physician-physicist working to unlock the secrets of thermodynamics in biology and medicine.
This circuit, which weakens with age, could offer a target to help prevent age-related decline in spatial memory.
Study uses social media to measure how much sentiment has been affected by the Covid-19 crisis, worldwide.
MLK Visiting Professor S. Craig Watkins looks beyond algorithm bias to an AI future where models more effectively deal with systemic inequality.