Brain networks encoding memory come together via electric fields, study finds

Electric fields shared among neurons via “ephaptic coupling” provide the coordination necessary to assemble the engrams that represent remembered information.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
July 24, 2023 ~8 min

Brady Weissbourd named Klingenstein-Simons Fellow

Three-year fellowship will support Weissbourd’s research on how the C. hemisphaerica jellyfish survives and thrives by constantly making new neurons.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
July 20, 2023 ~3 min


How Tau tangles form in the brain

A new study shows that truncated versions of the Tau protein are more likely to form the sticky filaments seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
July 14, 2023 ~6 min

Making algorithm used in AI more human-like

Researchers used fMRI to test ideas about complex decision-making.

Christy DeSmith • harvard
July 12, 2023 ~5 min

When computer vision works more like a brain, it sees more like people do

Training artificial neural networks with data from real brains can make computer vision more robust.

Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
June 30, 2023 ~10 min

Scientists identify first genetic marker for MS severity

A study of more than 22,000 people with multiple sclerosis has discovered the first genetic variant associated with faster disease progression, which can rob

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 28, 2023 ~6 min

Cambridge to lead new research platform to transform treatment of traumatic brain injury in the UK

Cambridge is to lead a £9.5m research platform that aims to transform the way survivors of traumatic brain injury are diagnosed and treated in the UK, the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 28, 2023 ~6 min

Reading for pleasure early in childhood linked to better cognitive performance and mental wellbeing in adolescence

Children who begin reading for pleasure early in life tend to perform better at cognitive tests and have better mental health when they enter adolescence, a

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 28, 2023 ~5 min


How uploading our minds to a computer might become possible

Mind uploading could allow human consciousness to live on long after their body dies.

Angela Thornton, PhD Candidate, University of Nottingham • conversation
June 26, 2023 ~6 min

Without a key extracellular protein, neuronal axons break and synaptic connections fall apart

Scientists find a protein common to flies and people is essential for supporting the structure of axons that neurons project to make circuit connections.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
June 23, 2023 ~7 min

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