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Ancient mutation may be key to humans’ unique abilities with speech.

Somewhere nearby, most likely, sits a coffee mug. Give it a glance. An image of that mug travels from desktop to retina and into the brain, where it is processed, categorized and recognized, within a fraction of a second. All this feels effortless to us, but programming a computer to do the same reveals just […]

At the McGovern Institute, we use basic research to understand neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. Today, our researchers took the #IceBucketChallenge

Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language.

Feng Zhang of MIT and the Broad Institute, Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Emmanuelle Charpentier of Umeå University have been awarded Brandeis University’s 17th Annual Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine. The researchers are being honored for their work on the CRISPR/cas system, a […]

July 10, 2014: Massachusetts Secretary of Education Matthew Malone (center) visits the McGovern Institute to learn more about dyslexia research in the Gabrieli lab. Photo: Julie Pryor

Brain scans differentiate adults who have recovered from childhood ADHD and those whose difficulties linger.

New light-sensitive protein enables simpler, more powerful optogenetics.

McGovern neuroscientists inhibit muscle contractions by shining light on spinal cord neurons.