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.
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 Hanna Gray Fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Chevy Chase, Maryland-based
Dopamine, a signaling molecule used throughout the brain, plays a major role in regulating our mood, as well as controlling movement. Many disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, depression, and schizophrenia, are linked to dopamine deficiencies.
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 cognitive declines associated with normal brain aging.
