Current Issue: Spring 2013 Issue 27
A bundle of spiny apical dendrites, reconstructed from a series of ultra-thin slices of mouse cortex. Image: Daniel Berger and Sebastian Seung (MIT); based on data from Jeff Lichtman and colleagues (Harvard).
Researchers in John Gabrieli's lab prepare a child for the MRI scanner. Photo: Kent Dayton
John Gabrieli with members of his lab. Photo: Justin Knight
John Gabrieli, Director of the Martinos Imaging Center at MIT
From the Director
In a recent speech at the White House, President Obama announced a new initiative to understand the brain, which he described as one of the grand challenges for the scientific community and for…
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Feature Story
From Brain Imaging to Personalized Medicine
The summer after John Gabrieli finished college with a literature degree from Yale, he found himself in a store in Harvard Square, wondering what to do next.
“I was looking at books and found …
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Institute News
MIT Researchers Join Obama for Brain Announcement
Robert Desimone and Ed Boyden were invited to the White House on Tuesday, April 2, when President Barack Obama announced a new initiative to understand the human brain.
The McGovern researchers,…
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Awards & Honors
Awards and Honors
Martha Constantine-Paton is among nine MIT faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The new class, which includes leaders from academia, business, public affairs,…
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Research News
John Gabrieli collaborated with colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University to study how brain connectivity is altered in autism. They used magnetoencephalography…
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Events
Ann Graybiel Invited to White House
President Obama met on March 28 with the six U.S. winners of the 2012 Kavli Prizes—including Ann Graybiel (fourth from right) and two MIT colleagues, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Jane Luu. Graybiel…
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