How the brain tells good from bad
Eating a slice of chocolate cake or spending time with a friend usually stimulates positive feelings, while getting in a ...
Month: April 2015
Picower researchers ID brain mechanisms underlying alertness and attentiveness
Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that a common neurotransmitter acts ...
Alana Foundation gift to support study of Down syndrome
MIT and Case Western Reserve University have each received $1.7 million from Brazil’s Alana Foundation to develop a collaboration that ...
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Small NIH study reveals how immune response triggered by COVID-19 may damage the brain
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Scientists discover cancer trigger that could spur targeted drug therapies
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Researchers uncover life’s power generators in the Earth’s oldest groundwaters
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COVID-19 fattens up our body’s cells to fuel its viral takeover
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Study shows convalescent plasma doesn’t benefit severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19
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Do early therapies help very young children with or at high likelihood for autism?