Neuroscience

Silencing the brain with lightMIT neuroengineers find a new way to quickly and reversibly shut off neurons with multiple colors of light, which could lead to new treatments for epilepsy and chronic pain.

HHMI lists Tsai team’s advance among 10 biggest stories of 2009Howard Hughes Medical Institute honors discovery of gene protein that could lead to safer drug treatments for Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

Rethinking artificial intelligenceBroad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.

3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world’s most famous amnesicThis week, scientists plan to slice the brain of H.M., the amnesia patient who died last year and whose condition helped shed light on how memories are formed.

Back to (brain) basicsMIT neuroscientists are using their knowledge of the brain to generate promising treatments for autism, mental retardation and Alzheimer’s disease.

A head of timeFor the first time, neuroscientists find brain cells that keep track of time with extreme precision.

In Profile: Matt WilsonBy listening in on rat brains, the Picower Institute neuroscientist tries to understand the role of sleep in learning and memory

Rats' mental 'instant replay' drives next movesMIT study illuminates thoughts and memories

MIT researchers: The mind's eye scans like a spotlightNew role discovered for brain waves

Why we learn more from our successes than our failuresMIT study sheds light on the brain's ability to change in response to learning

Researchers find new actions of neurochemicalsWork with tiny worm could point to new treatments for human brain disorders

Li-Huei Tsai to direct Picower Institute

Music at MIT hitting all the right notes

How you feel the world impacts how you see itMotion illusions reveal new insights into perception

A human failure, seen at face valueResearch probes why we have difficulty recognizing faces in photo negatives

Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cellsWhitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient

3-D day21st century holography to be explored in MIT Museum forum