Li-Huei Tsai receives Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award
Picower Institute director awarded for her research on brain development, neurological disorders, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Kay Tye Receives the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
Picower Neuroscientist recognized for her work on emotional circuitry of the brain.
Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Biocompatible fibers could use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease.
Scientists identify neurons devoted to social memory
Cells in the hippocampus store memories of acquaintances, a new study reports.
Replicating the connection between muscles and nerves
New chip could help test drugs for ALS, other neuromuscular disorders.
Kay Tye receives Freedman Prize for Exceptional Basic Research
Neuroscientist recognized by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for project on neural circuits for anxiety control.
Toward a better understanding of the brain
Genome-editing pioneer Feng Zhang hopes his work will shed light on neurological disorders.
“Lost” memories can be found
Neuroscientists retrieve missing memories in mice with early Alzheimer’s symptoms.
Edward Boyden wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Three neuroscientists share biomedicine prize for development of optogenetics
Bringing “the greatest show in the universe” to the people
MIT hosts national ScienceWriters2015 conference.
How the brain encodes time and place
Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that is critical for forming episodic memories.
Researchers find “lost” memories
Scientists use optogenetics to reactivate memories that could not otherwise be retrieved.
Seeking deeper understanding of how the brain works
Edward Boyden develops techniques to study the brain, and how it operates, in finer detail.
