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As part of our Ask the Brain series, Jarrod Hicks, a graduate student in Josh McDermott‘s lab, answers the question, […]
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As part of our Ask the Brain series, Jarrod Hicks, a graduate student in Josh McDermott‘s lab, answers the question, […]
Learn more →The inextricable link between our brains and our bodies has been gaining increasing recognition among researchers and clinicians over recent […]
Learn more →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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