The quantifier
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images.
Patterns of connections reveal brain functions
Neuroscientists identify face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to.
$26.5 million Simons gift to catalyze autism research at MIT
Creates the Simons Center for the Social Brain
A new piece to the autism puzzle
Neuroscientists find that two rare autism-related disorders are caused by opposing malfunctions in the brain.
Unraveling how a mutation can lead to psychiatric illness
MIT neuroscientists show that a gene linked with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder impairs early brain development.
Mimicking the brain, in silicon
New computer chip models how neurons communicate with each other at synapses.
Connecting neurons to fix the brain
New technology helps scientists discover drugs to strengthen synapses.
Brain rhythms are key to learning
New study from MIT neuroscientists finds that brain waves shift frequency as a new task becomes routine.
Dyslexia independent of IQ
Brain-imaging study suggests that reading difficulties are the same regardless of overall intelligence — and that more children could benefit from support in school.
How to reverse general anesthesia
Neuroscientists find that Ritalin could help bring surgical patients out of surgery much more quickly, with less grogginess.
Five from MIT win NIH grants
Grants support biomedical research that will ‘challenge the status quo’ with risk-taking, innovative ideas.
MIT part of $18.5 million effort to create mind-machine interface
New multi-institution center will work on robotic interaction with nervous system
When things go wrong, who’s to blame?
New study shows that infants are surprisingly adept at figuring out whether they made a mistake or if something is wrong in the world.
When four is not four, but rather two plus two
MIT neuroscientists redefine the limits of visual working memory.