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Welcome to the homepage of
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Society at MIT! We are the
Undergraduate Association for Course 9 and our purpose is to:
- Be a resource for Course 9 undergrads by providing information
and organizing events
- Unite the BCS community
- Improve the undergraduate Course 9 experience
Announcements
Upcoming BCSS Events
Mark your calendars for these upcoming
BCSS events!
Neuroscience in
the News!
Explore the world neuroscience. Click on the icons on the right for
more links.
Society of Neuroscience
Genetic link to Parkinson's is
discovered
The Washington Post – January 26, 2006
Researchers said yesterday that they have identified a
single genetic mutation that accounts for more than 20
percent of all cases of Parkinson's disease in Arabs,
North Africans and Jews, a big surprise for a major
disease in which genetics was thought to play a
relatively minor role. |
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MIT Picower Institute for
Learning & Memory
Picower researcher finds neuron
growth in adult brain
MIT
News Office –
December 27, 2005
Despite the prevailing belief that adult brain
cells don't grow, a researcher at the Picower Institute
for Learning and Memory reports in the Dec. 27 issue of
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that structural
remodeling of neurons does in fact occur in mature
brains.
(A cool page on the
Picower website.) |
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MIT Brain & Cognitive
Sciences
Research explains how the brain
finds Waldo
MIT News Office –
May 26, 2005
At any given moment, the world bombards the senses with
more information than the brain can process, and for
more than a century scientists and psychologists have
debated how the brain filters out distractions and
focuses attention on the things that matter. Using the
visual system as a model, Professor Robert Desimone,
director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at
MIT, and his former colleagues at the National
Institutes of Health show that neurons synchronize their
signals to command attention, like a chorus rising above
the din of noisy chatter in a crowded room. |
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