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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.

Boston’s NPR station, 90.9 WBUR, ran a story this morning about cutting edge dyslexia research as part of their series called “Brain Matters.”

Today, WBUR (Boston’s NPR station) began a 2-month long series on the brain called “Brain Matters.”

Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs, researchers find.

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