McGovern Institute

Mehrdad Jazayeri will join the MIT faculty in January 2013 as a McGovern Institute Investigator and an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Mehrdad Jazayeri to join BCS, McGovern Institute faculty

October 2, 2012

Martha Constantine-Paton has been awarded the Society for Neuroscience's Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award.

McGovern neuroscientist Constantine-Paton wins lifetime achievement award

September 28, 2012

Four from MIT win NIH grants

Brown, Gore, Ploegh and Zhang receive grants for innovative biomedical research.

September 13, 2012

Social anxiety patients with more activity in visual processing areas, left, when viewing images of angry faces, responded better to subsequent cognitive behavioral therapy than patients with lower activity in those regions.

Predicting how patients respond to therapy

Brain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder.

September 6, 2012

This graphic shows the brain, with the motor cortex highlighted in yellow.

Stroke disrupts how brain controls muscle synergies

Distinctive patterns could allow doctors to develop better rehab programs for stroke patients.

August 20, 2012

New MIT research shows what happens inside the brains of young children as they learn to think about the thoughts and emotions of other people.

Thinking about others is not child’s play

MIT study reveals changes in brain activity as children learn to read other people’s behavior.

August 9, 2012

Professor John Gabrieli's neuroscience lab uses tools such as this fMRI scanner to study how the brain makes the mind.

Introduction to Psychology now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar format

Course is the sixth of seven courses MIT OCW will publish this year specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.

July 31, 2012

On Sept. 4, King Harald of Norway presented awards to the winners of the Kavli Prize in astrophysics, from left, David Jewitt, MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Jane Luu and Michael Edwards Brown.

Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli Prizes

Biennial prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience include a $1 million cash award in each field.

May 31, 2012

Optogenetics is a technology in which neurons are genetically engineered to respond to light.

Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prize

Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize

April 26, 2012

McGovern Institute investigator Feng Zhang has been named a 2012 Searle Scholar.

McGovern investigator Feng Zhang named Searle Scholar

April 23, 2012

The power of being heard

When it comes to intergroup conflict, the group with less power benefits more from sharing its perspective.

March 15, 2012