Diffusion tensor imaging
Diffusion tensor imaging
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.
Songbirds
Songbirds
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: Social Engineer
Satra Ghosh: Social Engineer
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]
McGovern Institute Holiday Greeting 2012
McGovern Institute Holiday Greeting 2012
Warmest wishes this holiday season from your friends at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
Neuron imaging
Neuron imaging
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.
The Aging Brain: Learning, Memory, and Wisdom
The Aging Brain: Learning, Memory, and Wisdom
McGovern Institute investigator John Gabrieli discusses the capacity of the human brain to change over the course of a lifetime.
A Robot for Analyzing Single Cells in the Living Brain
A Robot for Analyzing Single Cells in the Living Brain
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 ...
Meet Guoping Feng - Investigator, McGovern Institute
Meet Guoping Feng - Investigator, McGovern Institute
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 ...
Joel Z. Leibo, McGovern Institute Friends Fellow
Joel Z. Leibo, McGovern Institute Friends Fellow for 2012-2013
Leibo’s research asks two key questions: How do we learn to recognize faces? And how can we build machines to do the same?
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: David Cohen
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: David Cohen
April 27, 2012 Speaker: David Cohen, Massachusetts General Hospital Special Presentation: The origins of the MEG (McGovern Institute director Robert Desimone introduces David Cohen.)
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: David Poeppel
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: David Poeppel
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
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Eric Halgren
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Eric Halgren
MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Patricia Kuhl
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Patricia Kuhl
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
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Richard Coppola
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Richard Coppola
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
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Robert Desimone
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Robert Desimone
April 27, 2012 McGovern Institute Symposium -- MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience Speakers: Charles Jennings and Robert Desimone, McGovern Institute Opening remarks
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Sylvian Baillet
2012 McGovern Institute Symposium: Sylvian Baillet
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
2012 Scolnick Prize Lecture: Roger Nicoll, MD
2012 Scolnick Prize Lecture: Roger Nicoll, MD
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 ...
Philip Sharp Lecture in Neural Circuits: Dr. Okihide ...
Philip Sharp Lecture in Neural Circuits: Dr. Okihide Hikosaka
"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 ...
Meet James DiCarlo
Meet James DiCarlo
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 >>
Meet Michale Fee
Meet Michale Fee
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]