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MIT and Harvard University neuroscientists have found a link between a behavioral symptom of autism and reduced activity of a neurotransmitter whose job is to dampen neuron excitation.

Scientists have long wondered if the human brain contains neural mechanisms specific to music perception.

The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Researchers at MIT, New York University, and the University of Toronto have developed a computer system whose ability to produce a variation of a character in an unfamiliar writing system, on the first try, is indistinguis

Although it is known that psychiatric disorders have a strong genetic component, untangling the web of genes contributing to each disease is a daunting task.

MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have developed a new way to classify neurons by labeling and imaging the proteins found in each cell.

The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the Broad Institute.

Sean Perry, a technical associate at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, died suddenly in his hometown of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on Monday, Nov. 23. He was 39.

Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what they hear from their fathers.

When the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons.