Tell me about your day, MIT
White "TMAYD" wristbands are being distributed by a first-year student who wants to warm up campus interactions.
How the brain tells good from bad
Neuroscientists identify neurons in the amygdala that assign emotions to experience.
Crowdsourced tool for depression
Peer-to-peer application outperforms conventional self-help technique for easing depression, anxiety.
Temple Grandin: Look at what people can do, not what they can’t
In talks at MIT, noted behavioral expert suggests encouraging skills of people with autism.
How brain waves guide memory formation
Neurons hum at different frequencies to tell the brain which memories it should store.
MIT researchers find where visual memories are made
Discovery could lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders including autism and schizophrenia.
New findings reveal genetic brain disorders converge at the synapse
Picower Institute researchers show that different causes of autism and intellectual disability respond to the same treatment.
Lincoln Laboratory team takes honors at Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop
The laboratory's technology for automatic assessment of depression severity earns a second consecutive first place in AVEC subchallenge.
Autism as a disorder of prediction
Researchers suggest autism stems from a reduced ability to make predictions, leading to anxiety.
3 Questions: Jayakanth Srinivasan on mental health in the military
Researcher earns U.S. Army’s “Outstanding Civilian Service” award for helping restructure medical care.
$650 million commitment to Stanley Center at Broad Institute aims to galvanize mental illness research
Transformative partnership with Ted Stanley will spur researchers to reveal biology of psychiatric disorders.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
In search of better antidepressants
New study suggests targeting dopamine-releasing neurons could lead to more effective therapies.