MIT News feature How the Brain Seeks Pleasure and Avoids Pain Neuroscientist Kay Tye tackles the physical basis of emotions and behavior. by Amanda Schaffer 2017-06-27T07:00:00-04:00
MIT News feature Tracing a Memory Susumu Tonegawa is finding out how the brain stores and retrieves individual memories. by Courtney Humphries, SM ’04 2016-10-18T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Work Begins on Brain Stimulator to Correct Memory Can deep brain stimulation affect how well and what we remember? by Andrew Zaleski 2015-04-03T13:30:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Neuroscience’s New Toolbox With the invention of optogenetics and other technologies, researchers can investigate the source of emotions, memory, and consciousness for the first time. by Stephen S. Hall 2014-06-17T00:05:02-04:00
Rewriting Life The Cross-Section of Memory Neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute have demonstrated that optogenetics can be used to place false memories in the brains of lab rodents. by Sam Wotipka , Emma Sconyers , and Lindsay Brownell 2014-06-17T00:05:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Memory Is Inherently Fallible, And That's a Good Thing Neuroscientists Daniela Schiller says every time you recall a memory, it changes, and that can be a useful thing. by Susan Young Rojahn 2013-10-09T14:33:38-04:00
Rewriting Life Scientists Make Mice “Remember” Things That Didn’t Happen Researchers manipulate mouse neurons to create a false memory; the work could lead to a better understanding of how memories form. by Susan Young Rojahn 2013-07-25T14:00:00-04:00
Biotechnology Repairing Bad Memories A scientist who has anguished over terrors in her family’s history explores how people might erase the trauma from memories. by Stephen S. Hall 2013-06-17T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life How to Make an Implant that Improves the Brain Enhancing the flow of information through the brain could be crucial to making neuroprosthetics practical. by Loren M. Frank 2013-05-09T09:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Memory Implants A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories. by Jon Cohen 2013-04-23T00:00:00-04:00
