Today the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative awards, and six teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are among the recipients.
Huda Zoghbi to receive 2014 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for her work on the genetic basis of human disorders.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Thomas Jessell of Columbia University is the winner of the 2013 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. The Prize is awarded annually by the McGovern Institute to recognize outstanding advances in the field of neuroscience.
The McGovern Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Gloria Choi as a new McGovern Investigator, starting in summer 2013.
When it comes to intergroup conflict, the group with less power benefits more from sharing its perspective according to a new study by MIT neuroscientists.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Roger Nicoll of the University of California, San Francisco, is the winner of the 2012 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. The Prize is awarded annually by the McGovern Institute to recognize outstanding advances in the field of neuroscience.
MIT neuroscientists explore how longstanding conflict influences empathy for others.
MIT neuroscientists identify face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to.
One gene appears to regulate the brain's ability to form new memories.
Ed Boyden of MIT’s Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, has been named by the UK-based Institute of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) as the first winner of the newly established A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize.
Starting just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, MIT neuroscientist John Gabrieli and colleagues around the country undertook a large-scale survey of how people remembered the attacks.
Two faculty members at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have received prestigious awards to develop new technologies to study the brain.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research will soon have a sibling in China. On April 22 an agreement was signed between Patrick McGovern, chairman of International Data Group Inc. (IDG) and co-founder of the McGovern Institute at MIT, and top officials of Tsinghua University, to establish a new institute for brain research in Beijing.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is pleased to announce that Bruce McEwen of The Rockefeller University is the winner of the 2011 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
Mice with a particular gene mutation avoid interacting with other mice and show compulsive, repetitive behavior.
Most people have habits that guide them through daily life — for example, their path to work in the morning, or their bedtime routine. The brain patterns that drive this behavior are not well-understood, but a new study from MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research shows that habit formation appears to be an innate ability that is fine-tuned by experience — specifically, the costs and rewards of certain choices.
As anyone who as ever picked up a guitar or a tennis racket knows, precise timing is often an essential part of performing complex tasks. Now, by studying the brain circuits that control bird song, MIT researchers have identified a “chain reaction” of brain activity that appears to control the timing of song.
For decades, carefully logging data about how mice go through the motions of their daily routines has been a tedious staple of behavioral and neuroscience research. It’s a task most people would happily cede to automation. Now, according to a new study by MIT neuroscientists, that’s finally possible.
Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human vision.) A new study by MIT neuroscientists suggests that the brain learns to solve the problem of object recognition through its vast experience in the natural world.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT today announced the appointment of Feng Zhang as a McGovern Investigator, starting in spring 2011.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT welcomes its newest faculty member, Guoping Feng, who arrived at MIT in June.
The McGovern Institute is delighted to announce that its feature video, Welcome to the McGovern Institute, has won a 2010 CINE Golden Eagle Award.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is pleased to announce that its feature video, Welcome to the McGovern Institute, has won a 2010 Silver Telly Award.
Driving to and from work is a habit for most commuters – we do it without really thinking. But before our commutes became routine, we had to learn our way through trial-and-error exploration. A new study out of MIT has found that there are two brain circuits involved with this kind of learning and that the patterns of activity in these circuits evolve as our behaviors become more habitual.
Researchers at MIT and Hebrew University identify specific classes of neurons involved with learning and match them to their mammalian counterparts.
In a new study published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, MIT neuroscientists report on a new method to analyze brain imaging data – one that may paint a clearer picture of how our brain produces and understands language.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today the launch of its new website at http://mcgovern.mit.edu.
MIT neuroscientists have designed a new MRI sensor that responds to the neurotransmitter dopamine, an achievement that may significantly improve the specificity and resolution of future brain imaging procedures.
MIT researchers have discovered new molecular changes in the brains of individuals with Huntington’s disease, a genetic disorder that leads to neuronal loss accompanied by unwanted movements, psychiatric symptoms, and eventual death.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Lily Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California San Francisco will be the joint winners of the 2010 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
Neuroscientists at MIT have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light. When targeted to specific neurons, these tools could potentially lead to new treatments for the abnormal brain activity associated with disorders such as chronic pain, epilepsy, brain injury, and Parkinson’s disease.
Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from MIT and Harvard have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.
Researchers at MIT and San Camillo Hospital in Venice, Italy, have shown that motor impairments in stroke patients can be understood as impairments in specific combinations of muscle activity, known as synergies. This finding suggest new approaches to the rehabilitation of stroke patients.
MIT researchers have identified populations of neurons that code time with extreme precision in the primate brain.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today the appointment of a new faculty member, Guoping Feng, who is currently an associate professor at Duke University.
The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected speed. Their findings suggest that the brain has a network of silent connections that underlie its plasticity.
Learning complex skills like playing an instrument requires a sequence of movements that can take years to master. Last year, MIT neuroscientists reported that by studying the chirps of tiny songbirds, they were able to identify how two distinct brain circuits contribute to this type of trial-and-error learning in different stages of life.
Although the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has only 302 neurons in its entire nervous system, studies of this simple animal have significantly advanced our understanding of human brain function because it shares many genes and neurochemical signaling molecules with humans. Now MIT researchers have found novel C. elegans neurochemical receptors, the discovery of which could lead to new therapeutic targets for psychiatric disorders if similar receptors are found in humans.
Just as our world buzzes with distractions "” from phone calls to e-mails to tweets "” the neurons in our brain are bombarded with messages. Research has shown that when we pay attention, some of these neurons begin firing in unison, like a chorus rising above the noise. Now, a study in the May 29 issue of Science reveals the likely brain center that serves as the conductor of this neural chorus.
As director of the McGovern Institute, Robert Desimone divides his time between his administrative responsibilities and his own research on the control of attention. His career has reflected the evolution of the field, as basic research has begun to provide new insights into disease mechanisms.
Scientists have studied high-frequency brain waves, known as gamma oscillations, for more than 50 years, believing them crucial to consciousness, attention, learning and memory. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers and colleagues have found a way to induce these waves by shining laser light directly onto the brains of mice.
In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects "” like rocks "” appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that this phenomenon, called motion aftereffect, occurs not only in our visual perception but also in our tactile perception, and that these senses actually influence one another. Put another way, how you feel the world can actually change how you see it "” and vice versa.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Jeremy Nathans, of Johns Hopkins University, will be the 2009 recipient of the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. The Scolnick Prize is awarded annually by the McGovern Institute to recognize an individual who has made outstanding advances in the field of neuroscience.
An international collaborative research effort has identified a novel gene, FUS/TLS, for inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). This is the fourth gene associated with familial forms of the devastating neurological disorder. The mutations in FUS/TLS lead to deposits of abnormal protein within motor neurons.
MIT study sheds light on underlying neural mechanism of remapping observed in macular degeneration.
Where do innovative ideas come from and how can we accelerate them? That's the challenge and mandate of MIT's McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program. MINT supports innovative new projects that can drive the future development of neuroscience.
High-speed movies by MIT neuroscientists reveal the first glimpse of rat whiskers in action, showing the micromovements underlying the rat's tactile perception, which is closely related to the human sense of touch. These patterns, which are larger and more complex than any previously observed, are key to a rat's perceptions and behavior.
An MIT study identifies two related genes linked to L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. The expression of these two related CalDAG-GEF genes is altered in opposite ways in the striatum brain region of animals with dyskinesias. The results may lead to new approaches to the treatment of dyskinesias in Parkinson's patients.
Schizophrenia may blur the boundary between internal and external realities by overactivating and hyper-connecting a brain system that is involved in self-reflection, and thus causing an exaggerated focus on self, a new MIT and Harvard brain imaging study has found.
MIT neuroscientists report in Nature using temperature to control the speed of brain activity and to close in on the regions responsible for timing within the brain, specifically in birdsong. This technology could help researchers investigate brain mechanism involved in timing complex behaviors in different animals.
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