Real-time readouts of thinking in rats
New open-source system provides fast, accurate neural decoding and real-time readouts of where rats think they are.
Mapping the brain, cell by cell
Technique for preserving tissue allows researchers to create maps of neural circuits with single-cell resolution.
How returning to a prior context aids memory recall
Picower Institute researchers discover the brain mechanism that helps details come flooding back when you visit a scene again.
Biologists discover an unusual hallmark of aging in neurons
Snippets of RNA that accumulate in brain cells could interfere with normal function.
Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance
Neuroscientists discover a circuit that helps redirect attention to focus on potential threats.
How working memory gets you through the day
A new model shows how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind.
Protein has unique effects on information processing
Picower Institute researchers find that a key protein linked to intellectual disability shapes electrical currents in neural connections.
To improve anesthesia, focus on neuroscience and nociception, experts urge
A principled approach can lead to less need for drugs, especially opioids, Emery Brown and colleagues say.
New perspectives at the bench
Three MIT postdocs earn competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships that support diversity in the sciences.
Antidepressant restores youthful flexibility to aging inhibitory neurons
Neural plasticity and arbor growth decline with age, study in mice shows.
The debate over how working memory works
Scientists present dueling theories in the high-stakes quest to understand how we hold and juggle multiple pieces of information in mind.
As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing
Six brain regions participate in a more blended way than has been appreciated.
What separates the strong from weak among connections in the brain
MIT study finds synapses develop strength with calcium, maturation.
Study shows where brain transforms seeing into doing
MIT neuroscientists find posterior parietal cortex region is crucial to connecting perception to action.
MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity
Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken.