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Mehrdad Jazayeri of the McGovern Institute welcomes guests to the McGovern Institute annual symposium.

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 […]

In middle-schoolers, neuroscientists find differences in brain structures where knowledge is stored.

Nancy Kanwisher goes to ludicrous extremes to show you where in the head some of the functionally specific brain regions lie.

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 […]

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 […]