Neuroscience

$4 million Picower Foundation gift supports neuroscience innovation at MIT

May 6, 2008

Bear continues leadership at Picower Institute

Accepts additional two-year appointment as director

May 5, 2008

Singing in the brain: Baby birds' chirps use different neural pathway

May 1, 2008

This frame from a time-lapse movie shows multiple traces (red) of a single rat whisker, captured at 3,200 frames per second, as it moves from left to right across a rough surface and then a smoother one. (For clarity, only every 3rd trace is shown, or about one per millisecond). Clusters and gaps of the traces correspond to this whisker's rapid sticking and slipping movements during ~175 millisec...

MIT researchers catch rats' twitchy whiskers in action

February 27, 2008

MIT: No easy answers in evolution of human language

February 17, 2008

Learning about brains from computers, and vice versa

February 16, 2008

McGovern researchers awarded $8.5 million to study brain basis of autism and dyslexia

February 6, 2008

The human brain easily recognizes that these cars are all the same object, but the variations in the car's size, orientation and position are a challenge for computer-vision algorithms.

MIT neuroscientists see design flaws in computer vision tests

January 24, 2008

The green-stained section of this mouse hippocampus represents where the new DICE-K technique blocked the neural-signal transmission in one of the hippocampal circuits of the brain.

New MIT tool probes brain circuits

Method applied to learning/memory pathway

January 24, 2008

Brain activity in East Asians and Americans as they make relative and absolute judgments. The arrows point to brain regions involved in attention that are engaged by more demanding tasks. Americans show more activity during relative judgments than absolute judgments, presumably because the former task is less familiar and hence more demanding for them. East Asians show the opposite pattern.

Culture influences brain function, study shows

January 11, 2008

Gift aims to promote new Picower collaborations

January 10, 2008

Mark Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience (right), and GÃ¼l DÃ¶len, a graduate student at Brown University, report the correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice

Research points to potential drug treatment for humans

December 19, 2007

Missing protein may be key to autism

December 5, 2007

Carlos Lois and colleagues have found that adult stem cells produced in the brain are preprogrammed to make only certain kinds of connections. Lois is an assistant professor of neuroscience in MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

MIT: stem-cell therapies for brain more complicated than thought

November 30, 2007

'Cocktail' of compounds improves brain function in rodents

Treatment undergoing a clinical study in Alzheimer's patients

November 26, 2007

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