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Scientists show that children think like scientists

March 24, 2006

A rat's whiskers help the animal create a topographic map of its surroundings in its brain, MIT researchers report.

Rat whiskers lead to brain map

March 22, 2006

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

March 22, 2006

Picower research finds unexpected activity in visual cortex

March 16, 2006

Research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald E. Schneider, both of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, worked with others to create a technique that helps rodents recover from traumatic brain injuries. The monitor shows a microscopic view of the brain repair.

MIT researchers restore vision in rodents blinded by brain damage

March 13, 2006

Ruth Bodner, a postdoctoral fellow in MIT's Center for Cancer Research, has discovered a compound that could lead to the development of a new treatment for Huntington's disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

Research holds promise for Huntington's treatment

March 6, 2006

MIT researchers have found that synchronized neurons speed up attention. The color scale in these graphs indicates the degree of synchronized activity of neurons in the monkey's V4 area of the visual cortex. The more the neurons fire in synchrony (red), the faster the monkey notices a small color change in an attended picture (348 instead of 498 milliseconds).

Neurons in sync focus attention, researchers find

February 24, 2006

Newton student wins Brain Bee at Picower

February 16, 2006

'Mad cow protein' found to aid creation of brain cells

February 16, 2006

This confocal microscopy image shows activity in the rat brain, with the retinal nerve pathway showing green and the functional synapses appearing yellow.

Eyes wide shut: McGovern research sheds light on visual circuits

February 14, 2006

Picower Institute research indicates rats mentally replay their most recent actions--in reverse. The study may shed light on mechanisms of learning and memory.

Picower researcher explains how rats think

February 12, 2006

Researchers link mad-cow culprit to stem cell health

January 30, 2006

View of a pyramidal neuron within the cerebral cortex of a living mouse brain.

Picower researcher finds neuron growth in adult brain

December 27, 2005

By increasing the resolution of brain scans, MIT scientist Nancy Kanwisher and colleagues have shown that brain regions that specialize in recognizing faces (pink area) and those that specialize in bodies (yellow area) are close but distinct.

Faces have a special place in the brain

December 21, 2005

Institute dedicates Brain & Cog Complex

December 5, 2005