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.
Michale Fee, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, studies birdsong in order to understand how the brain learns and generates complex sequences of behavior. Learn more about Michale Fee [images courtesy of pond5]
(4:12) Feng Zhang, a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, is designing new molecular tools for manipulating the living brain. As a student, he played a major role in the development of optogenetics, a technology by which the brain's electrical activity can be controlled ...
(4:27) Ed Boyden, a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, develops new strategies for manipulating brain activity. He uses a wide variety of technologies to find new and more potent ways to alter brain function, for both research and therapeutic purposes. A major goal of ...
(3:42) Yingxi Lin, a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, uses molecular, genetic, and electrophysiological methods to understand how inhibitory circuits form within the brain, and how they are shaped by activity and experience. Learn more about Yingxi Lin >> [Stock ...
The Magnetoencephalography Lab at Athinoula Martinos Imaging Center at MIT hosted a lecture discussing MEG imaging in neuroscience: Title: Experimenting with MEG: present and future prospects Speaker: Lauri Parkkonen, Ph.D., Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ...
(01:21:48) On Thursday, October 20th, leading experts from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the American Parkinson Disease Association discussed cutting edge advances in Parkinson's disease research and provided perspective on what the future holds ...
The 2011 Scolnick Prize in Neurosciece was awarded to Dr. Bruce McEwen for his contributions to understanding how hormones affect the brain. Dr. McEwen gave his prize lecture, entitled, "Sex, Stress, and the Brain: Hormone actions above the hypothalamus via novel ...
(54:10) On September 14, 2011, The McGovern Institute partnered with the Alzheimer's Association as part of an evening seminar series called, "Understanding Brain Disorders." The seminar series is designed to encourage an open dialogue among scientific researchers, ...
(4:42) Nancy Kanwisher, a founding member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, uses brain imaging to learn about the organization of the mind. Learn more about Nancy Kanwisher [Images/video courtesy of pond5, Joshua Julian]
Following injection of a nucleus accumbens slice with HSV-GCaMP3, glutamate was applied to stimulate calcium signaling. This movie shows a cell body and a spine in a time-lapse series. Movie courtesy of Daniel Christoffel in the laboratory of Scott Russo.
(4:37) Robert Desimone is director of the McGovern Institute and formerly the head of intramural research at the National Institute of Mental Health. Desimone also runs his own lab at the McGovern Institute, where he studies the brain mechanisms underlying attention. Learn more about Bob ...
(02:19) Ki Goosens, an Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and an Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, studies the relationship between fear, anxiety, and stress. Learn more about Ki Goosens >>
This animation illustrates optogenetics -- a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden, the co-inventor of this technology, is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, where he continues to develop new technologies ...
This animation illustrates optogenetics — a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light.
(18:39) In this talk presented at the 2011 TED conference, Ed Boyden describes a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. TED Conference: Long ...
The 2011 McGovern Institute Symposium: Inhibition and Neural Circuit Function. This video features Gordon Fishell of New York University School of Medicine. His talk is entitled, "Neuronal activity is required for the development of specific cortical interneuron subtypes."
McGovern Institute 2010 Symposium: Inhibition & Neural Circuit Function. This video features Chris McBain of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His talk is entitled, "Development and maturation of inhibition/excitation ratio in vivo disrupts information processing ...
2011 McGovern Symposium: Inhibition & Neural Circuit Function. This video features Josh Huang of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His talk is entitled, "Toward a genetic dissection of GABAergic circuits in cerebral cortex: chandeliers light up the path."
2011 McGovern Institute symposium: Inhibition & Neural Circuit Function. This video features Ed Callaway of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His talk is entitled, "Rabies-based tools for elucidating neural circuits and linking connectivity to function."
2011 McGovern Institute Symposium: Inhibition & Neural Circuit Function. This video features Andreas Luthi of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. His talk is entitled, "Defining the neuronal circuitry of fear."
