Just before school was out for summer, high school students from Everett and Lawrence toured life sciences research labs at MIT to get information and inspiration

Unexpected outcomes trigger release of noradrenaline, which helps the brain focus its attention and learn from the event

Research Program Award will fund studies to find early triggers of disease progression

Emery N. Brown and three other scientists recognized for advancing statistical, theoretical analyses of neuroscience data

Stimulation of subthalamic nucleus interrupts a cycle of runaway beta-frequency rhythms and restores ability of interneurons to regulate rhythms in the brain’s striatum, improving movement, study suggests

Under propofol general anesthesia very slow frequency traveling waves transform and dominate, redirecting and disrupting the higher frequency traveling waves associated with conscious function

With a comprehensive map of the wiring, researchers can now discern what information flows into the circuit to enable a key brain function

Competitive seed grants launch yearlong investigations of novel hypotheses about potential causes, biomarkers, treatments of Alzheimer’s and ALS.

Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that “engrams,” the ensembles of neurons encoding a memory, are widely distributed, including among regions not previously realized

Pierre Galletti Award recognizes contributions to neural signal processing, anesthesiology advances

A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons

A Picower Institute primer on ‘plasticity,’ the brain’s amazing ability to constantly adapt to and learn from experience