At a symposium of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, six speakers described a diversity of recently launched studies aimed at improving understanding of the autistic brain.
Research could help improve motor rehabilitation programs and assistive robot control.
A detailed new look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists’ model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised.
MIT and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health launch specialized program to train future clinicians on the fabrication of artificial limbs and braces for people with disabilities.
The MIT sophomore and award-winning memory champion explains what these competitions are all about and why you might want to build a “memory palace.”
New research reveals what it takes for a protein that is best known for protecting cells against death to take on the opposite role.
Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will start postgraduate studies at Oxford next fall.
Using fMRI, the research team identified 24 networks that perform specific functions within the brain’s cerebral cortex.
Organized by the MIT Museum, the 2024 celebration of science, technology, and culture was the largest in its history, with over 50,000 visitors at 300 events.
The new study also identifies factors that can make these efforts more successful.
The devices could be a useful tool for biomedical research, and possible clinical use in the future.
Labs that can’t afford expensive super-resolution microscopes could use a new expansion technique to image nanoscale structures inside cells.
New research suggests neurons protect and preserve certain information through a dedicated zone of stable synapses.
MIT researchers investigate the neural circuits that underlie placebos’ ability to relieve chronic and acute pain.
In language-processing areas of the brain, some cell populations respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words.