Neuroscience

$100M gift to launch research center for psychiatric disease

March 8, 2007

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

Natalya Slepneva of Newton South High School accepts the first prize for the 2007 regional Brain Bee held at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

Newton 11th grader wins Boston regional Brain Bee

February 23, 2007

Picower study points to a genetic link for schizophrenia

February 20, 2007

MIT researchers Pawan Sinha, center, and Yuri Ostrovsky, right, test the visual skills of a patient in India. The patient, known as S.R.D., had her vision restored at the age of 12.

MIT study shows those who once were blind can learn to see

February 14, 2007

Scientists: A good lie detector is hard to find

'Spin' and fact omission leave no neuro-trace

February 12, 2007

High school students compete in 'brain bee' at MIT Feb. 10

February 9, 2007

Mark Bear named Picower director

January 2, 2007

McGovern Institute appoints neurotechnology program director

December 20, 2006

Neuroscience council members announced

December 18, 2006

Memory experts show sleeping rats may have visual dreams

December 18, 2006

Susan Lindquist called in colleagues to see if her findings in yeast would hold up in animals with neurons and brains.

Parkinson's disease process may be curtailed by regenerative processes in yeast, fruit flies

Whitehead researcher leads multi-institutional team

December 11, 2006

Susumu Tonegawa to step down from Picower Institute leadership

Founding director will devote energies to research

November 17, 2006

Statements by Susumu Tonegawa, Rafael Reif

November 17, 2006

MIT establishes Advisory Council on Neuroscience to coordinate faculty hiring

November 2, 2006

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