Stanley Center & Poitras Center Joint Translational Seminar Series: Dr. Stephan Heckers
April 28, 2015 “How can we make progress in psychiatric research?” Abstract: In this talk I will combine a review of my own research with a critical reflection on progress made in psychiatry research. My research has focused on mechanisms and consequences of hippocampal dysfunction in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. While hippocampal pathology is now […]
Seminar: Dr. Masaki Tanaka
Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
In middle-schoolers, neuroscientists find differences in brain structures where knowledge is stored.
Seminar: Frank Tong, PhD
Neuroanatomy Lesson
Nancy Kanwisher goes to ludicrous extremes to show you where in the head some of the functionally specific brain regions lie.
Seminar: Ning Liu, PhD
Bold new microscopies for the brain
McGovern researchers create unexpected new approaches to microscopy that are changing the way scientists look at the brain. Ask McGovern Investigator Ed Boyden about his ten-year plan and you’ll get an immediate and straight-faced answer: “We would like to understand the brain.” He means it. Boyden intends to map all of the cells in a […]
Broad Institute-MIT team identifies highly efficient new Cas9 for in vivo genome editing
A collaborative study between researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Institutes of Health (NIH-NCBI) has identified a highly efficient Cas9 nuclease that overcomes one of the primary challenges to in vivo genome editing. This finding, published today in […]
2015 Scolnick Prize Lecture: Dr. Charles Gilbert
Dr. Charles Gilbert of The Rockefeller University delivers the annual Scolnick Prize Lecture on Friday, March 20, 2015.