Robert Goldberg never spent much time thinking about fashion. All that changed six years ago, however, when as a visiting...
Genetic research suggests that hundreds of genes are likely risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. This heterogeneity presents...
Sleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep. However, MIT neuroscientists have...
Keeping track of time is critical for many tasks, such as playing the piano, swinging a tennis racket, or holding...
MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the effects of...
When the eyes are open, visual information flows from the retina through the optic nerve and into the brain, which...
Current methods to check for increased pressure in a patient’s brain are invasive. One widely used technique is to drill...
Fibrous protein clumps known as amyloids are most often associated with diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, where they form characteristic...
When you remember a particular experience, that memory has three critical elements — what, when, and where. MIT neuroscientists have...
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. After weeks of...
George Adelman, noted neuroscience editor, died June 26 due to complications of an injury after a fall. He was 89...
An MRI scanner is an unusual tool for resolving war and conflict, but an MIT collaboration now underway is deploying...
Nitrous oxide, commonly known as “laughing gas,” has been used in anesthesiology practice since the 1800s, but the way it...
Researchers at MIT have proven that the brain’s cortex doesn’t process specific tasks in highly specialized modules — showing that...
MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can cure the symptoms of depression in mice by artificially reactivating happy memories that...
The process that allows our brains to learn and generate new memories also leads to degeneration as we age, according...
Memories that have been “lost” as a result of amnesia can be recalled by activating brain cells with light. In...
Some decisions arouse far more anxiety than others. Among the most anxiety-provoking are those that involve options with both positive...
Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have identified a master genetic regulator that could account for faulty...
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