Today the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative awards, and six teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are among the recipients.
Huda Zoghbi to receive 2014 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for her work on the genetic basis of human disorders.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Thomas Jessell of Columbia University is the winner of the 2013 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. The Prize is awarded annually by the McGovern Institute to recognize outstanding advances in the field of neuroscience.
The McGovern Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Gloria Choi as a new McGovern Investigator, starting in summer 2013.
When it comes to intergroup conflict, the group with less power benefits more from sharing its perspective according to a new study by MIT neuroscientists.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Roger Nicoll of the University of California, San Francisco, is the winner of the 2012 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. The Prize is awarded annually by the McGovern Institute to recognize outstanding advances in the field of neuroscience.
MIT neuroscientists explore how longstanding conflict influences empathy for others.
MIT neuroscientists identify face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to.
One gene appears to regulate the brain's ability to form new memories.
Ed Boyden of MIT’s Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, has been named by the UK-based Institute of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) as the first winner of the newly established A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize.
Starting just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, MIT neuroscientist John Gabrieli and colleagues around the country undertook a large-scale survey of how people remembered the attacks.
Two faculty members at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have received prestigious awards to develop new technologies to study the brain.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research will soon have a sibling in China. On April 22 an agreement was signed between Patrick McGovern, chairman of International Data Group Inc. (IDG) and co-founder of the McGovern Institute at MIT, and top officials of Tsinghua University, to establish a new institute for brain research in Beijing.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is pleased to announce that Bruce McEwen of The Rockefeller University is the winner of the 2011 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
Mice with a particular gene mutation avoid interacting with other mice and show compulsive, repetitive behavior.
Most people have habits that guide them through daily life — for example, their path to work in the morning, or their bedtime routine. The brain patterns that drive this behavior are not well-understood, but a new study from MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research shows that habit formation appears to be an innate ability that is fine-tuned by experience — specifically, the costs and rewards of certain choices.
As anyone who as ever picked up a guitar or a tennis racket knows, precise timing is often an essential part of performing complex tasks. Now, by studying the brain circuits that control bird song, MIT researchers have identified a “chain reaction” of brain activity that appears to control the timing of song.
For decades, carefully logging data about how mice go through the motions of their daily routines has been a tedious staple of behavioral and neuroscience research. It’s a task most people would happily cede to automation. Now, according to a new study by MIT neuroscientists, that’s finally possible.
Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human vision.) A new study by MIT neuroscientists suggests that the brain learns to solve the problem of object recognition through its vast experience in the natural world.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT today announced the appointment of Feng Zhang as a McGovern Investigator, starting in spring 2011.
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