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Seminar: Guoping Feng: "TRN Dysfunction in Neurodevelopment Disorders"

The thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), the major source of thalamic inhibition, is known to regulate thalamocortical interactions critical for sensory processing, attention and cognition.

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Brain’s “memory center” is needed to recognize image sequences, but not single sights

July 26, 2021

Brain’s “memory center” is needed to recognize image sequences, but not single sights

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David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

A new MIT study of how a mammalian brain remembers what it sees shows that while individual images are stored in the visual cortex, the ability to recognize a sequence of sights critically depends

Five MIT School of Science professors receive tenure for 2021

July 22, 2021

Five MIT School of Science professors receive tenure for 2021

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Annie Lee | School of Science

MIT has granted tenure to five faculty members in the MIT School of Science in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics.

Memory-making involves extensive DNA breaking

July 14, 2021

Memory-making involves extensive DNA breaking

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David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA in numerous locations — more tha

2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards honor MIT educators’ innovation and empathy

July 9, 2021

2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards honor MIT educators’ innovation and empathy

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MIT Open Learning

This June, 23 faculty and instructors from over a dozen departments, labs, and centers across MIT were honored with Teaching with Digital Technology Awards in an online celebration hosted by the Of

Three from MIT receive 2021 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

June 30, 2021

Three from MIT receive 2021 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

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Elizabeth Durant | Office of the Vice Chancellor

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has selected three MIT students as recipients of its prestigious fellowships this year: Allen Liu ’20, Alex Miller ’21, and Isabelle Yan Phinney ’20.