A game to map the brain: Amy Robinson at TEDxNijmegen 2013
A game to map the brain: Amy Robinson at TEDxNijmegen 2013
Amy Robinson is a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
A normal neuron and a mutated neuron develop side by side.
A normal neuron and a mutated neuron develop side by side.
This time lapse video shows development of a normal neuron (left) and a mutated neuron that does not express the Ena/VASP proteins. Cultured for two days, the normal one extends an axon and many dendrites, while the mutated neuron fails to make such extensions. Full ...
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 ...
Activation and information in working memory and attention
Activation and information in working memory and attention
Bradley R. Postle, recorded 12/5/12
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
Li-Huei Tsai, PhD2011 An Afternoon with MIT's Brains on Brains Symposium MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. Our world-renowned neuroscientists and cognitive scientists study the brain and mind at every level, from ...
Alzheimer's Disease: Realizing the Promise of Molecular ...
Alzheimer's Disease: Realizing the Promise of Molecular Medicine
05/07/2010 1:15 PM 46"3002Steven PaulDescription: In 1906, when Alois Alzheimer first described the disease that bears his name, it was a rarity; life expectancy in the US was around 50 years, and few people lived long enough to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD). But ...
An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
In this video, a mouse with a fiberoptic cable implanted into his brain explores a four-arm maze. The animal has been genetically engineered to express light-sensitive proteins in a specific part of the amygdala, a brain region linked to fear. Mice are naturally afraid of open spaces, and at ...
Architecture of the Brain
Architecture of the Brain
06/12/2003 11:00 AM 3-170Elly Nedivi, Fred and Carole Middleton Assistant Professor; Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biology at MITDescription: In this lecture Elly Nedivi provides an overview on the basics of brain anatomy, working her way up the spinal column to the deepest ...
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
"I'll give you the 30,000 foot view of autism."
Bernoulli, Poisson, and Markov Processes
Bernoulli, Poisson, and Markov Processes
In this lecture we discuss Bernoulli processes, Poisson processes, and Markov processes.
