Creating therapies for Alzheimer’s disease by targeting neural circuits
Age-related dementia will affect 10 percent of people in the U.S. within their lifetime. Alzheimer’s disease, the…
Age-related dementia will affect 10 percent of people in the U.S. within their lifetime. Alzheimer’s disease, the…
Synthetic biology allows scientists to design genetic circuits that can be placed in cells, giving them new…
The visual system can be “rebooted,” offering hope for restoring sight to the visually impaired, according to…
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism…
Scientists hoping to get a glimpse of molecules that control brain activity have devised a new probe…
Using LED lights flickering at a specific frequency, MIT researchers have shown that they can substantially reduce…
A distinctive neural signature found in the brains of people with dyslexia may explain why these individuals…
When it comes to perceiving music, the human brain is much more tuned in to certain types…
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a…
“Scientists take beautiful images of the brain every day, and for the most part no one gets…