The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT is led by a team of world-renowned neuroscientists committed to meeting two great challenges of modern science: understanding how the brain works and discovering new ways to prevent or treat brain disorders.
This video shows white matter tracts, the long-range connections of the human brain. The tracts are revealed here through a MRI-based method known as 'diffusion tensor imaging' or DTI. The video is based on data produced by Dr Satrajit Ghosh at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
McGovern Institute investigator Michale Fee studies the music of songbirds -- and what it tells us about how the brain learns complex sequential behavior.
Satra Ghosh is a research scientist in John Gabrieli's lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. In this video, Satra talks about his research on mild traumatic brain injury in U.S. soldiers. [Stock footage/music: U.S. Department of Defense, Satra Ghosh, shockwave-sound.com]
Warmest wishes this holiday season from your friends at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
Researchers have developed a way to monitor how brain cells coordinate with each other to control specific behaviors, such as initiating movement or detecting an odor.
McGovern Institute investigator John Gabrieli discusses the capacity of the human brain to change over the course of a lifetime.
Researchers at Georgia Tech and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting ...
Guoping Feng, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, studies the development and function of synapses and their disruption in brain disorders. He uses molecular genetics combined with behavioral and electrophysiological methods to ...
Leibo’s research asks two key questions: How do we learn to recognize faces? And how can we build machines to do the same?
April 27, 2012 Speaker: David Cohen, Massachusetts General Hospital Special Presentation: The origins of the MEG (McGovern Institute director Robert Desimone introduces David Cohen.)
April 27, 2012 McGovern Institute Symposium -- MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker: David Poeppel, New York University Unpacking the temporal structure of speech and language processing
MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience
April 27, 2012 McGovern Institute Symposium -- MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker: Patricia Kuhl, University of WAshington, Seattle Using MEG to explore developmental change in speech processing: a focus on sensory-motor connections
April 27, 2012 McGovern Institute Symposium -- MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker: Richard Coppola, National Institute of Mental Health MEG in the search for intermediate phenotypes and biomarkers in neuropsychiatric research
April 27, 2012 McGovern Institute Symposium -- MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience Speakers: Charles Jennings and Robert Desimone, McGovern Institute Opening remarks
April 27, 2012 McGovern Institute Symposium -- MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker: Sylvain Baillet, Montreal Neurological Institute Dynamic imaging of ongoing brain activity: the healthy and diseased brain at rest
April 19, 2012Dr. Roger Nicoll of the University of California, San Francisco was awarded the 2012 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for his pioneering work on synaptic plasticity, the process by which the brain's connections are modified in response to experience (click ...
"Choosing good objects – a basal ganglia mechanism" Speaker: Okihide HikosakaAffiliation: Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, NIHDate: Thursday, March 1 Abstract: Many objects around us have values which have been acquired through ...
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a technique for mapping brain activity by recording magnetic fields produced by electrical currents occurring naturally in the brain, using arrays of SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices). Applications of MEG include basic research into ...
James DiCarlo, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, examines the complex network of brain regions that allow us to recognize vast numbers of objects rapidly and effortlessly. Learn more about James DiCarlo >>
