November 9, 2016Creating therapies for Alzheimer's disease by targeting neural circuits by Helen Knight | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Age-related dementia will affect 10 percent of people in the U.S. within their lifetime.
November 1, 2016Earl Miller receives Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience by Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The following is adapted from a press release from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
November 1, 2016Michale Fee and Elizabeth Nolan win Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education by Bendta Schroeder | School of Science The School of Science recently announced the winners of its 2016 Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education.
October 26, 2016Monumental new sculpture commissioned for MIT's McGovern Institute by Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research “SCIENTIA,” a monumental bronze sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard is a gift from Lore Harp McGovern.
October 24, 2016Study suggests approach to waking patients after surgery by Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent The use of general anesthesia for surgery has not changed fundamentally since it was first introduced 170 years ago. Patients are still left to come around in their own time following withdrawal of the drug.
October 24, 2016Working with purpose by Natalie Britton | Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center Work-study program creates priceless relationships between MIT students and the local community.
October 19, 2016Color Decoder: Looking deeper into the brain to understand how color meshes with forms and faces by Elizabeth Dougherty | MIT Spectrum Rosa Lafer-Sousa exhibted her first piece of artwork at age four.
October 18, 2016A new player in appetite control by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office MIT neuroscientists have discovered that brain cells called glial cells play a critical role in controlling appetite and feeding behavior.
October 17, 2016Professor Emeritus Whitman Richards dies at 84 by Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Longtime professor and beloved advisor was known for advances in experimental and theoretical studies of vision, perception, and cognition.
October 17, 2016A delicate balance between positive and negative emotion by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Neuroscientists identify two neuron populations that encode happy or fearful memories.
