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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

MIT IDs binocular vision gene

Research could lead to treatments for some visual disorders

September 13, 2007

Chi-Sang Poon (left), principal research scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, stands next to Shawna MacDonald of mechanical engineering and Gang Song, an HST research scientist. The group has found that the body's innate ability to adapt to recurring stimuli may help in designing better artificial respirators.

Leveraging learning for artificial respiration

MIT research could lead to better, more cost-efficient ventilators

September 11, 2007

Drawings of visual objects by a stroke victim known as BL. When a stimulus appears just below BL's blind area, the shape elongates upwards and into the blind area. He perceived circles as cigar shaped, squares as rectangles, and triangles as pencil shaped.

Adult brain can change, study confirms

Work could aid interventions following stroke

September 5, 2007

MIT student Lisa Nakano, left, a senior in brain and cognitive sciences; Ruth Rosenholtz, principal research scientist; and graduate student Yuan Zhen laugh at the clutter in an office. The three have identified a way to measure visual clutter.

MIT's 'clutter detector' could cut confusion

August 21, 2007

Memory formation in children, adolescents and young adults: Brain activation in the medial temporal lobe (lower brain scans) remains constant while activation in the prefrontal cortex (upper brain scans) increases from childhood to adulthood when successfully memorizing pictures with rich detail.

MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories

August 5, 2007

Five from MIT receive NARSAD awards; Graybiel is Distinguished Investigator

June 19, 2007

Five from MIT receive NARSAD awards; Graybiel is Distinguished Investigator

June 19, 2007

Research scientist Thomas J. McHugh, left, and Professor Susumu Tonegawa, both of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, are part of a research team that has found the part of the brain that distinguishes between similar places.

Research deciphers 'dÃ©jÃ -vu' brain mechanics

June 7, 2007

Brain & Cognitive Sciences awards

June 6, 2007

Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' in learning

June 4, 2007

Martha Constantine-Paton, an MIT professor of biology and principle investigator in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and research scientist Akira Yoshii have discovered a new molecular pathway that helps solve the puzzle of how neurons form synapses.

MIT reports key pathway in synaptic plasticity

Work could aid study of brain disorders

May 21, 2007

Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and colleagues have found that exposing lab mice to certain environmental stimuli induced the animals' brain cells to make new connections.

Picower team reverses Alzheimer's-like symptoms in mice

'Lost' memories may prove merely inaccessible

April 30, 2007

Larger-scale folds develop the fastest in premature (born more than seven weeks early) infants (top), while medium-scale folds develop the fastest in older premature infants, born between seven and two weeks early (middle). In older infants and children, fine folds develop the most quickly across the brain surface (bottom).

Model helps researchers 'see' brain development

Work could facilitate early detection of autism

April 10, 2007

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