The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
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
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MIT senior studies cognitive science and medicine from the vantage point of a person with dyslexia.
