A new MIT Libraries initiative aims to highlight MIT’s women faculty by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible their personal archives.
To work at all, the nervous system needs its cells, or neurons, to connect and converse in a language of electrical impulses and chemical neurotransmitters.
The School of Science announced that eight of its faculty members have been appointed to named professorships.
Many patients with neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety or depression experience negative moods that lead them to focus on the possible downside of a given situation more than the potential b
In a debate where the stakes are nothing short of understanding how the brain maintains its so-called “sketchpad of conscious thought,” researchers discuss exactly what makes working memory work in
A new study provides fresh evidence that the decline in the capacity of brain cells to change (called “plasticity”), rather than a decline in total cell number, may underlie some of the sensory and
Dopamine, a signaling molecule used throughout the brain, plays a major role in regulating our mood, as well as controlling movement.
In recognition of their exceptional potential to be leaders in the life sciences, three MIT postdocs at the Koch, Picower, and Whitehead institutes at MIT are among 15 young researchers to earn Han
