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To keep track of what’s going on in front of it, the brain relies not only on what it sees, but also a comparison with what it just saw. A new study pinpoints the circuit that provides that service.

MIT researchers find that activity in the brain’s language network is nearly identical in young and old people.

Shannon Knight, a brain and cognitive sciences PhD candidate and McGovern Institute researcher, focuses on developing a novel gene therapy.

A study of worms finds a protein that helps shape the structure of the genome is critical for establishing the identity of some neurons.

Neuroscientists have discovered circuits in the prefrontal cortex that can be repurposed to store different types of information.

The new technique could help scientists learn how the entire brain works to generate decisions and emotions.

An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.

Longtime professors and experts in the fields of anesthesiology, aerospace engineering, and biological engineering, respectively, receive MIT’s highest faculty honor.

Tonegawa made landmark discoveries about how the immune system generates antibody diversity and how the brain forms memories.

A new study adds evidence that electric fields in the brain help to organize and shape underlying neural activity via “ephaptic coupling.”