Brain and cognitive sciences

Calcium reveals connections between neuronsNew way to image brain-cell activity could shed light on autism and other psychiatric disorders.

Brain’s language center has multiple rolesNeuroscientists find Broca’s area is really two subunits, each with its own function.

Explaining the origins of word order using information theoryResearchers believe that information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication — can explain differences between human languages.

Mehrdad Jazayeri to join BCS, McGovern Institute faculty

McGovern neuroscientist Constantine-Paton wins lifetime achievement award

How attention helps you rememberNew study finds long-overlooked cells help the brain respond to visual stimuli.

A brain beyond bordersMIT senior Victoria Okuneye traveled to Mexico and Jamaica to pursue her passions for neuroscience and global service.

Four from MIT win NIH grantsBrown, Gore, Ploegh and Zhang receive grants for innovative biomedical research.

Predicting how patients respond to therapyBrain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder.

MIT neuroscientists achieve 'dream engineering' in rats

Stroke disrupts how brain controls muscle synergiesDistinctive patterns could allow doctors to develop better rehab programs for stroke patients.

Simple mathematical computations underlie brain circuitsDiscovery of how some neurons inhibit others could shed light on autism, other neurological disorders.

Thinking about others is not child’s playMIT study reveals changes in brain activity as children learn to read other people’s behavior.

Introduction to Psychology now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar formatCourse is the sixth of seven courses MIT OCW will publish this year specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.

Five MIT researchers win presidential early career honorsJarillo-Herrero, Lu, Pathak, Sinha and Thaler among 96 winners.

Nutrient mixture improves memory in patients with early Alzheimer’sIn clinical trial, mixture developed at MIT appears to help overcome loss of connections between brain cells.

Angus MacDonald, longtime MIT Corporation member, dies at 86Alumnus’ wide-ranging MIT interests included neuroscience, aeronautics, political science and the arts and humanities.

All things big and small: the brain’s discerning taste for sizeNew research shows brain has distinct regions for identifying different sized objects.

Picower Institute researchers identify brain cell aberration tied to autism

Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli PrizesBiennial prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience include a $1 million cash award in each field.

Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cellsNew method offers automated way to record electrical activity inside neurons in the living brain.

Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prizeEd Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize

Inhibitory and excitatory synapse dynamics in the brain

McGovern investigator Feng Zhang named Searle Scholar

Two MIT juniors named Truman ScholarsMcCord, Okuneye awarded $30,000 for graduate study toward careers in government, non-profits.

Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cellsSimply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory.

New tools to answer timeless questionsAlan Jasanoff is designing imaging sensors that could help reveal the brain’s inner workings.

The power of being heardWhen it comes to intergroup conflict, the group with less power benefits more from sharing its perspective.