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McGovern Institute news
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Does fMRI work the same way in young children as in adults?
November 30, 2007
MIT study shows how fMRI and neural signals develop in young animals.
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MIT to study genes’ role in mental illness
October 22, 2007
The McGovern Institute establishes the Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research with a $20 million commitment from MIT alumnus James Poitras and his wife Patricia.
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Thinking with Blood
October 11, 2007
Christopher Moore proposes that blood flow helps the brain compute information.
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See also the summer 2007 issue of the Brain Scan newsletter
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Law and Neuroscience
October 9, 2007
Robert Desimone participates in MacArthur Foundation's $10 Million Law and Neuroscience Project.
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Pliable perception: The adult brain can change
September 5, 2007
New evidence from a stroke patient shows that brain region for vision can reorganize after an injury.
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Maturity brings richer memories.
August 5, 2007
John Gabrieli's fMRI studies show that children rival adults in forming basic memories, but adults do better at remembering the rich, contextual details of that information.
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Brain has a ‘teacher’ and a ‘tinkerer’
June 4, 2007
Emilio Bizzi collaboration learns that a noisy brain may help learning.
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New, High Resolution MRI Machine Comes to Campus
June 2007
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Martha Constantine-Paton’s lab discovers a new pathway for synaptic plasticity in the developing brain.
May 2007
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Tommy Poggio's lab models how we recognize object categories after just a fleeting glimpse.
April 2007
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Scolnick Prize awarded to David Julius
February 2007
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