McGovern Institute Holiday Greeting 2012
Warmest wishes this holiday season from your friends at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
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McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Warmest wishes this holiday season from your friends at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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. ...
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 ...
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."
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."
In a study published on April 19, 2011 in the journal Molecular Therapy, researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the University of Southern California used optogenetic technology to restore vision in blind mice.Learn more about the study and the ...
(01:18:09) On April 14, 2011, The McGovern Institute partnered with Autism Speaks, an advocacy organization dedicated to increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families, as part of an evening ...
(01:17:03) On March 23, 2011, The McGovern Institute partnered with Families for Depression Awareness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people recognize and cope with depression, as part of an evening seminar series called, ...
On May 15, 2013, 3dim earned the grand prize at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
What message is your brain sending?
You can create your own mini flashlight.
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.
On April 24, 2013 in Briggs Field, thousands of law enforcement officials joined the MIT community in honoring fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.
After an extensive renovation project, the Barker Library reading room has reopened to reveal the grandeur of the restored oculus atop the Great Dome, and the beauty of the rotunda’s original architecture.
Natural selection at work.
An interesting feature on the MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics by LaInformacion.com.
An undergraduate helps MIT's Brain and Cognitive Science Department find a cure for Huntington's disease.
An MIT undergraduate models a new class of material: the photonic crystal.
Used with permission from "Chronicle" (WCVB-Boston).
MIT Sloan Professor of Management Thomas Kochan discusses how financial analysts have pressured businesses to perform financially.
What makes a glow stick glow?
Alberto Cavallo, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how Argentina has lied about its inflation rate.
A small amount of water is placed inside an airtight copper tube, with the end sealed by a rubber stopper. The tube is heated using a blowtorch, causing the water inside to boil. As the water changes from a liquid to a gas the pressure inside the tube increases. Eventually the pressure blows ...
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Presentation by Ken Gagne, web producer at MIT Medical, on the basics of podcasting. This presentation was hosted by the Social Media Working Group and Communication Production Services in May 2013.
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