Neuroscience

Ed Boyden, seated, Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, middle, and Joost Bonsen, met in Boyden's lab to discuss the class they teach together on neurotechnology as a discipline.

Burgeoning field of neurotech spawns brainy businesses

MIT positioning students for rapidly growing discipline

January 29, 2009

Altered brain connectivity of default brain network in persons with schizophrenia...

Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may cause exaggerated focus on self

Study links schizophrenia to key 'default mode' in brain

January 19, 2009

Neuroscientists ID source of cognitive decline in aging brains

Memory suffers when brain-communication network decays

January 7, 2009

Team sheds light on Alzheimer's mystery

Work could lead to new treatments for debilitating disease

December 10, 2008

Adult brain neurons can remodel connections

Could lead to creating growth in cells and regions normally unable to repair themselves

November 24, 2008

The dendrite ofÂ a new neuron in the brain (labeled in red). The small yellow spots are synapses that the new neuron is receiving.

Not as easy as it may seem

Study sees challenges for integrating new neurons into brain

November 21, 2008

Two Scientists named to Discover's 'Top 20 Under 40' list

November 13, 2008

By studying songbirds, McGovern's Professor Michale Fee, left, and post-doc Michael Long move closer to understanding how timing is represented within the brain.

Singing in slow motion

MIT work with songbirds could aid study of humans' timing

November 12, 2008

Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Paul E Newton (1965) Professor of Neuroscience Mriganka Sur, left, led a toast to newly named Institute Professor Ann Graybiel, along with Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute, at a party given in Graybiel's honor.

Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

November 3, 2008

McGovern Institute funds collaborative neurotechnology projects

October 28, 2008

MIT neuroscience bolstered by new faculty, viral core facility

October 27, 2008

Two faculty among Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10'

October 14, 2008

View of C. elegans worm in which neurons (green) and muscles (red) that control egg laying have been genetically labeled.

Worms provide clues for treating brain diseases

September 24, 2008

Watch and learn: Time teaches us how to recognize visual objects

MIT work could help develop better computer vision systems

September 11, 2008

<a href="http://cvcl.mit.edu/MM/demo.html" target="_blank">Demo of massive memory study</a>

MIT researchers find memory capacity much bigger than previously thought

September 8, 2008

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