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Many years ago, I asked my mother if I could dismantle our VCR. Why? I wanted to see how it worked. Like any good mother, she told me that I was never to take apart the machine.

The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT has announced the appointment of Feng Zhang as the inaugural chairholder of the James and Patricia Poitras (1963) Professorship in Neuroscience.

When I was in college I noticed that many of my friends were taking “science for non-majors” classes.

In adults, certain regions of the brain’s visual cortex respond preferentially to specific types of input, such as faces or objects — but how and when those preferences arise has long puzzled neuroscientists.

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons —

New study finds that the brain is biased toward rhythms based on simple integer ratios.

A distinctive neural signature found in the brains of people with dyslexia may explain why these individuals have difficulty learning to read, according to a new study from MIT neuroscientists.

Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the W. M.

Noninvasive technique reduces beta amyloid plaques in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.