What if we could peer into the brain to determine guilt or innocence? Could advances in neuroscience help reform our criminal justice system? We invite you to join the discussion with a distinguished group of legal and neuroscience experts who will debate these and related questions on Tuesday, September 17th. Alan Alda will moderate the […]
McGovern researchers reveal how the brain keeps eyes on the prize.
Crews deliver a new MRI scanner to the McGovern Institute on July 23, 2013. The scanner is expected to be fully operational by the fall, and will be used for a wide range of studies on brain function, in both children and adults.
The scanner is expected to be fully operational by the fall, and will be used for a wide range of studies on brain function, in both children and adults.
Improved technique makes it easier to add or delete genes in living cells, with less risk of off-target DNA damage.
Although human cells have an estimated 20,000 genes, only a fraction of those are turned on at any given time, depending on the cell’s needs — which can change by the minute or hour. To find out what those genes are doing, researchers need tools that can manipulate their status on similarly short timescales. That […]
McGovern neuroscientists examine how to prevent habits from forming.
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Moshe Abeles of Bar-Ilan University presents his talk, entitled “Detecting the dynamics of binding amongst cortical areas: a MEG study.”
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi of Northwestern University presents his talk, entitled “Geometrical aspects of modularity in motor control, learning and brain-machine interfaces.”
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Krishna Shenoy of Stanford University presents his talk, entitled “Motor cortical control and prostheses: a dynamical systems perspective.”
