MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

By gillooly@mit.edu (Anne Trafton, MIT News Office) Wilson, now a professor at MIT and a researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, had set up an experiment where he recorded neural signals from rats' brains as they ran a maze in the lab. One day, he left the rats hooked up to the recording equipment after they finished runn...

Most recently, she and other MIT researchers published a paper in the journal Nature describing a new technique for disrupting high-frequency brain waves associated with schizophrenia called "gamma oscillations." Tsai and her colleagues hope to use ...

 MA Most recently, she and other MIT researchers published a paper in the journal Nature describing a new technique for disrupting high-frequency brain waves associated with schizophrenia called "gamma oscillations." Tsai and her colleagues hope to use ...

This new tool will give us a great chance to probe the function of these circuits,” Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Li-Huei Tsai, who is also the MIT Picower professor of Neuroscience, explained. “These oscillations are thought to be ...

By christopherious MIT researchers can reverse some symptoms of autism and mental retardation in mice by suppressing a specific enzyme. The research, conducted at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, is due to be posted on PNAS Online some time this week. Here is the MIT article. The specific sympto...