Optogenetic toolkit goes multicolor
New light-sensitive proteins allow scientists to study how multiple sets of neurons interact with each other.
New light-sensitive proteins allow scientists to study how multiple sets of neurons interact with each other.
Neuroscientists find that the ability to imagine spatial structures improves dramatically after blind children’s sight is restored.
Preliminary analysis of H.M.’s brain tissue lays groundwork for more comprehensive studies.
New brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information.
Study reveals how the brain links memories of events that occur one after the other.
MIT neuroscientists find the brain can identify images seen for as little as 13 milliseconds.
MIT neuroscientist Kay Tye finds a discrete brain circuit that controls social interaction, which is impaired in many brain disorders.
MIT neuroscientists map neural circuits involving the CA2 region of the hippocampus.
Neuroscientists discover neurological hyperactivity that produces disordered thinking.
The MIT professor has earned a 2013 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to further her obesity research.
Students presented the results of their summer UROP projects at the MIT Simons Center.
Deadline for applications is September 30
Mehmet Fatih Yanik develops tools to answer some of the central questions in neuroscience.