A brain circuit in the thalamus helps us hold information in mind
As people age, their working memory often declines, making it more difficult to perform everyday tasks. One key brain region […]
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As people age, their working memory often declines, making it more difficult to perform everyday tasks. One key brain region […]
Learn more →In January, as the Charles River was starting to freeze over, Keith Murray and the other members of MIT’s men’s […]
Learn more →Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but they also share other […]
Learn more →Doctors warn that marijuana use during pregnancy may have harmful effects on the development of a fetus, in part because […]
Learn more →When we make complex decisions, we have to take many factors into account. Some choices have a high payoff but […]
Learn more →Using a novel probe for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), MIT biological engineers have devised a way to monitor individual […]
Learn more →For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that lights up when […]
Learn more →Harvard neurobiologist David Ginty, winner of the 2022 Scolnick Prize. The McGovern Institute for Brain Research announced today that Harvard […]
Learn more →Within the human brain, neurons perform complex calculations on information they receive. Researchers at MIT have now demonstrated how dendrites […]
Learn more →When we read, information zips between language processing centers in different parts of the brain, traveling along neural highways in […]
Learn more →The MIT School of Science has announced eight postdocs and research scientists as recipients of the 2022 Infinite Expansion Award. […]
Learn more →Cocaine, opioids, and other drugs of abuse disrupt the brain’s reward system, often shifting users’ priorities to obtaining more drug […]
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