Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.

Clinical trial finds several outcomes improved for young children when an anesthesiologist observed their brain waves to guide dosing of sevoflurane during surgery.

Upon infection, the C. elegans worm reshuffles the roles of brain cells and flips the functions of some of the chemicals it uses to regulate behavior.

Since an MIT team introduced expansion microscopy in 2015, the technique has powered the science behind kidney disease, plant seeds, the microbiome, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.

A new technique automatically guides an LLM toward outputs that adhere to the rules of whatever programming language or other format is being used.

New research using computational vision models suggests the brain’s “ventral stream” might be more versatile than previously thought.

New research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds to growing evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.

A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.

A decade of studies provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain’s gamma rhythms could help fight Alzheimer’s, and perhaps other neurological diseases.

McGovern Institute researchers develop a mathematical model to help define how modularity occurs in the brain — and across nature.