MIT senior in brain and cognitive sciences and women's and gender studies honored for community work supporting mental health and women in STEM.
Three-in-one design allows genetic, chemical, optical, and electrical inputs and outputs.
Noninvasive technique reduces beta amyloid plaques in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
My interest in cognitive science first manifested itself as a passion for learning foreign languages, in my case French and American Sign Language.
Software that learns to recognize written characters from just one example may point the way towards more powerful, more humanlike artificial intelligence.
Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful in treating many Parkinson’s disease patients.
Michale Fee, the Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has received the Fundamental Science Investigator Award.
Many diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, can be treated with electrical stimulation from an electrode implanted in the brain. However, the electrodes can produce scarring, which diminishes their effectiveness and can necessitate additional surgeries to replace them.
