Study shows how specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk
Findings could help inform new therapies, improve diagnosis.
Findings could help inform new therapies, improve diagnosis.
Research by neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory helps explain how the brain regulates arousal.
Substantial refinements of three-photon microscopy allow for novel discoveries in neuroscience.
Study may lead to a better understanding of the digestive tract’s nervous system.
Technique for preserving tissue allows researchers to create maps of neural circuits with single-cell resolution.
Picower Institute researchers discover the brain mechanism that helps details come flooding back when you visit a scene again.
Snippets of RNA that accumulate in brain cells could interfere with normal function.
Neuroscientists discover a circuit that helps redirect attention to focus on potential threats.
A new model shows how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind.
Three MIT postdocs earn competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships that support diversity in the sciences.
Neural plasticity and arbor growth decline with age, study in mice shows.
Six brain regions participate in a more blended way than has been appreciated.
MIT study finds synapses develop strength with calcium, maturation.
MIT neuroscientists find posterior parietal cortex region is crucial to connecting perception to action.
Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken.