Author: Julie Pryor

Neurons in the brain of a transgenic mouse engineered to express a protein that emits light when neurons become active. Image: Qian Chen, Guoping Feng

Satra Ghosh is a research scientist in John Gabrieli’s lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. In this video, Satra talks about his research on mild traumatic brain injury in U.S. soldiers.

[Stock footage/music: U.S. Department of Defense, Satra Ghosh, shockwave-sound.com]

Warmest wishes this holiday season from your friends at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Our researchers and staff are an amazing bunch of individuals. To thank them for their efforts this past year, we gave them “magic mugs” — they’re quite a hit.

Feng Zhang, a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, is designing new molecular tools for manipulating the living brain. As a student, he played a major role in the development of optogenetics, a technology by which the brain’s electrical activity can be controlled with light-sensitive proteins. He is now working to extend this molecular engineering approach to other aspects of brain function such as gene expression, and to develop new approaches to understanding and eventually treating brain diseases.

Warmest wishes this holiday season from your friends at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

John Gabrieli, a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, uses brain imaging and behavioral tests to understand the organization of memory, thought, and emotion in the human brain. [Stock footage: pond5, Elekta Instrument AB]

Read more about John Gabrieli here.

 

Guoping Feng, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, studies the development and function of synapses and their disruption in brain disorders.  He uses molecular genetics combined with behavioral and electrophysiological methods to study the molecular components of the synapse and to understand how disruptions in these components can lead to diseases like autism  and OCD. [“The Synapse Revealed” illustrated by Graham Johnson of grahamj.com for HHMI ©2004.]

Read more about Guoping Feng here.

 

James DiCarlo, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, examines the complex network of brain regions that allow us to recognize vast numbers of objects rapidly and effortlessly. [Stock footage: pond5, Elekta Instrument AB]

Read more about James DiCarlo here.