Neuroscience

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

Biology professor Frank Gertler sits by a microscope in his lab. Gertler leads a team that's uncovered new insights on early development of the nervous system.

MIT IDs proteins key to brain function

Research could lead to new treatments for brain injuries

November 19, 2007

Lindquist researches new role for yeast

November 14, 2007

Professor Morgan Sheng, Menicon Professor of Neuroscience at MIT's Picower Center for Learning and Memory, joins post-doc Myung Jong Kim, right, in the lab. They have shown how manipulating a brain scaffolding protein called PSD-95 could boost cognitive function.

MIT IDs enzymes key to brainpower

Research could inform treatments for Alzheimer's patients

November 7, 2007

Big MIT contingent at Society for Neuroscience meeting

October 31, 2007

Poitras gift to support mental illness research at McGovern

October 22, 2007

Fluorescent micrograph (scaleÂ bar: 10 micrometers)Â shows yeast cells (red) with septin (green), which enables the budding of daughter cells. MIT researchers have found septinÂ also helps neurons sprout the branch-like protrusions used to communicate with other neurons.Â

MIT finds new role for well-known protein

Research could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

October 18, 2007

MIT Professor Christopher Moore hypothesizes that blood actively modulates how neurons process information.

Blood may help us think

October 16, 2007

Institute of Medicine elects Brown

October 13, 2007

HST graduate student Brad Buran investigates the physiology and molecular biology of the inner ear, the part of the auditory system where mechanical vibrations are turned into electrical signals in nerve fibers. Here he demonstrates the basics of cued speech, a system many students and colleagues have learned.

MIT student turns hearing loss into knowledge gain

October 3, 2007

Lakshminarayan Srinivasan (S.M., Ph.D. 2006) is part of a team that develops standardizing math equations to allow neural prostheses to work better. He is currently a medical student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Nervous System Repair at Massachusetts General Hospital.

MIT research helps convert brain signals into action

October 2, 2007

J. Troy Littleton, a professor in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, joins biology graduate student Sarah N. Huntwork in the lab. They have created the first genetically-engineered mutant--in this case a fruit fly--that produces no complexins (proteins that play a role in the release of neuro-transmitters) during cell-to-cell signaling.

Brain's messengers could be regulated, MIT researchers find

Potential for better understanding of schizophrenia

September 16, 2007

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