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A team including the scientist who first harnessed the CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has now identified a different CRISPR system with the potential for even simpler and more precise genome engineering.

When you remember a particular experience, that memory has three critical elements — what, when, and where.

About 8 million Americans suffer from nightmares and flashbacks to a traumatic event.

In 2011, MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe and colleagues reported that in blind adults, brain regions normally dedicated to vision processing instead participate in language tasks such as speech and comprehension.

We are creatures of habit, nearly mindlessly executing routine after routine. Some habits we feel good about; others, less so.

For patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD), current behavioral and pharmaceutical treatments work about half the time.

Here’s a quick task: Take a look at the sentences below and decide which is the most effective.  

(1) “John threw out the old trash sitting in the kitchen.”

George Adelman, noted neuroscience editor, died June 26 due to complications of an injury after a fall. He was 89 years old.

An MRI scanner is an unusual tool for resolving war and conflict, but an MIT collaboration now underway is deploying MRIs as an instrument for peace.

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as “laughing gas,” has been used in anesthesiology practice since the 1800s, but the way it works to create altered states is not well understood.