The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought—and a unified awareness of thought and experience—arises from analog computations carried out by electrical waves, MIT neuroscientists argue in a new review

Neuroscientists have discovered circuits in the prefrontal cortex that can be repurposed to store different types of information.

The new technique could help scientists learn how the entire brain works to generate decisions and emotions.

With the tough job of trying to keep track of what’s going on in front of it, the brain relies not only on what it sees, but also a comparison with what it just saw. A new study in mice pinpoints the circuit that provides that service.

Observations conflict about whether hormone replacement therapy increases or decreases Alzheimer’s likelihood for women. With a new award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, MIT researchers will investigate the underlying molecular mechanisms aff

Myriam Heiman becomes the fourth director of The Picower Institute. She shares her outlook in a new Q&A

Brown, a renowned neuroscientist, anesthesiologist and statistician, has made numerous seminal contributions to basic science and clinical care alike. He joins two other professors in earning the honor this year

Tonegawa made landmark discoveries about how the immune system generates antibody diversity and how the brain forms memories.

A new study adds evidence that electric fields in the brain help to organize and shape underlying neural activity via “ephaptic coupling.”

Combining insights from the debates of American civics to the discoveries of neuroscience labs, experts honed in on ways that brain science research could inform efforts to improve political participation and dialogue in a polarized age

Heiman, who studies neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, will lead the institute beginning July 1.

Picower Institute Research Scientist honored for studies, mentoring and recently discovering a new marine species