A security guard views a bank of eight monitors on his desk. The perspective of the image is from behind the security guard so that the various parts of a building's interior is visible on the monitors.
October 20, 2025
Like radar, a brain wave sweeps a cortical region to read out information held in working memory
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Six panels show circular arrangements of each individual cell type in a miBrain culture, stained in cyan. The cell types are Pericytes, Astrocytes, Endothelial Cells, Neurons, Oligodendroglia, and Microglia
October 17, 2025
MIT invents human brain model with six major cell types to enable personalized disease research, drug discovery
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An array of six panels shows different views of a long, thin, spiny structure that closely resembles a bumpy twig. Each is stained bright green and the degree of bumpiness varies along each one.
October 16, 2025
Study finds circular RNA helps drive brain development
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Two stacked electron microscope images show a synapse. Above a small, river-like gap is a dark T shape among many tiny bubble-like circles. In the bottom image the T shape is much bigger than in the upper image.
October 14, 2025
Neural activity helps circuit connections mature into optimal signal transmitters
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The almond shape of the amygdala is composed of cells stained red (on the left) and green (on the right).
September 29, 2025
Many Mechanisms of Mood
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New faculty member studies immune system effect on the brain

February 20, 2019
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Gloria Choi's research has connected maternal infection with neurodevelopmental disorders
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NSF ‘CAREER’ award helps fund Flavell lab study of behavioral states

February 12, 2019
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Research will probe how states like sleep emerge and are sustained
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Nedivi named to new professorship

February 7, 2019
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Elly Nedivi is the inaugural William R. (1964) & Linda R. Young Professor of Neuroscience
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Tsai earns Hans Wigzell Research Foundation Science Prize

January 23, 2019
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Award recognizes Alzheimer's disease research
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Study finds the circuits that may help you keep your cool

January 14, 2019
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Prefrontal cortex may be able to regulate arousal in locus coreuleus
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Scope advance reveals first look through all cortical layers of awake brain

January 11, 2019
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Refinement of three-photon microscopy allows unprecendented neuroscience
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Study shows how specific gene variants may raise bipolar disorder risk

January 9, 2019
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Findings could help inform new therapies, improve diagnosis
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Chung leads collaboration to make the best brain map yet

January 2, 2019
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Project will reveal the entire human brain, down to subcellular features
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Gut-brain connection signals worms to alter behavior while eating

December 20, 2018
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Study may lead to a better understanding of the digestive tract’s nervous system
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Mapping the brain, cell by cell, with SHIELD

December 17, 2018
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Technique for preserving tissue allows researchers to create maps of neural circuits with single-cell resolution
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How returning to a prior context briefly heightens memory recall

December 11, 2018
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Going back to a scene makes engram cells more electrically excitable
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Brown wins 2018 Dickson Prize in Science

December 5, 2018
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CMU award recognizes 'physician-scientist'
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