Scientists seek insight into Parkinson’s, addiction by tracking gene expression in the brain
Two MIT faculty members earn funding from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.
Two MIT faculty members earn funding from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.
The brain uses different frequency rhythms and cortical layers to suppress expected stimulation and increase activity for what’s novel.
Findings suggest this hippocampal circuit helps us to maintain our timeline of memories.
Frontal brain region overrides reflexive inclination of a deeper, older region when rules require.
Miniaturized device activates drugs in a small region deep within the brain.
Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
Unbiased, high-throughput analysis pipeline improves utility of “minibrains” for understanding development and diseases such as Zika infection.
Fluorescent imaging technique simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell.
Neuroscientists find that isolation provokes brain activity similar to that seen during hunger cravings.
A direct comparison of sensory and higher-order thalamic circuits reveals fundamental differences in how they control the cerebral cortex.
Norepinephrine-producing neurons in the locus coeruleus produce attention focus, impulse control via two distinct connections to prefrontal cortex.
Gurrein Madan, brain and cognitive sciences graduate student and MathWorks Fellow, studies gut–brain signaling with implications for human health.
Research on mice suggests aging affects a brain circuit critical for learning to make some types of decisions.
Award cites major contributions to statistical analysis of brain activity and advancing the neuroscience of anesthesia.
Recurrent processing via prefrontal cortex, necessary for quick visual object processing in primates, provides a key insight for developing brain-like artificial intelligence.