The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably makes you feel happy, while reflecting on being bullied provokes more negative
Patients with a rare neuromuscular disorder and those with nerve damage tied to autoimmune disorders may share the same faulty synapses, neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and
Neuroscientists have found that a gene mutation that arose more than half a million years ago may be key to humans’ unique ability to produce and understand speech.
Researchers from the Broad Institute and MIT have created a new mouse model to simplify application of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for genome-editing experiments in living animals.
Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative award recipients.
Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the first round of Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative award recipients, including several MIT
Our susceptibility to disease depends both on the genes that we inherit from our parents and on our lifetime experiences.
Memories that have been “lost” as a result of amnesia can be recalled by activating brain cells with light.
When the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons.
