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Month: September 2014

  • Picower and MIT scientists awarded BRAIN Initiative grants

    Researchers will advance our understanding of the human mind and discover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure neurological disorders. Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the first round of Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative award recipients, including several MIT interdisciplinary teams. The BRAIN Initiative, spearheaded by President Obama in…

  • Fifteen MIT scientists receive NIH BRAIN Initiative grants

    Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative award recipients. Six teams and 15 researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were recipients. Elly Nedivi, Picower Institute principal investigator and professor in BCS and the Department of Biology, leads a team studying new methods for high-speed monitoring of sensory-driven…

  • MIT Neurotech: Journey Through the Brain

    Journey into the inner territory of thinking, feeling and perceiving as we reveal how next generation neurotechnologies are revolutionizing our understanding of the brain. A new video and blog will be released each week on Scientific American from Sept 25 to Dec 18. MIT Neurotech will overview a dozen field-leading technologies. This series aims to familiarize…

  • Journey Through the Brain: Multiphoton Microscopy

    It’s a Saturday and you’re on vacation, looking out over the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean from the windy cliffs of Big Sur. You breathe in cool, fresh salty air. A thunderous pummel of great waves stirs neural networks in your brain and suddenly you find yourself wondering what lies submerged beneath the foaming sea. Seals…