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.
(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, ...
(42:38) The McGovern Institute awarded the 2010 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience to Lily and Yuh-Nung Jan of the University of California, San Francisco. In this video, Lily Jan delivers the second part of a joint prize lecture entitled, "Dendrite morphogenesis and channel regulation: ...
(39:36) The McGovern Institute awarded the 2010 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience to Lily and Yuh-Nung Jan of the University of California, San Francisco. In this video, Yuh-Nung Jan delivers the first part of a joint prize lecture entitled, "Dendrite ...
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."
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 Institute symposium: Inhibition and Neural Circuit Function. This video features David Lewis of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His talk is entitled, "Cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia."
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."
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."
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."
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(00:18) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides researchers with a non-invasive method for viewing the human brain in high resolution. This video shows a structural MRI produced at the Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a state-of-the-art brain imaging ...