Sensor traces dopamine released by single cells
New technology could help neuroscientists understand how dopamine influences brain activity.
New technology could help neuroscientists understand how dopamine influences brain activity.
McGovern researchers are finding neural markers that could help improve treatment for psychiatric patients. Ten years ago, Jim and Pat Poitras committed $20M to the McGovern Institute to establish the Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research. The Poitras family had been longtime supporters of MIT, and because they had seen mental illness in their own […]
On January 31, 2017, Joseph Buxbaum of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai delivers a talk entitled, “From Gene Discovery to Novel Therapeutics in Autism Spectrum Disorders.”
CRISPR pioneer named to inaugural chair created by Patricia and James Poitras ’63, founders of MIT’s Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research.
MRI scans reveal surprising similarities in activity patterns of infant and adult visual cortex.
On December 13, 2016, Alvaro Pascual-Leone of Harvard Medical School delivered a talk entitled, “Characterizing and modulating brain networks.”
Study suggests reduced brain plasticity could account for reading difficulties.
“Serial-like sampling of visual objects during sustained attention”
“Thalamic Reticular Nucleus (TRN) Dysfunction in Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
“A metabolic view of pathological axon degeneration”