A potential new Alzheimer’s drug represses the harmful inflammatory response of the brain’s immune cells, reducing disease pathology, preserving neurons, and improving cognition in preclinical tests.

MIT professor discusses the US surgeon general’s recent advisory and why scrolling social media can lead to depression and anxiety.

But the harm from a discriminatory AI system can be minimized if the advice it delivers is properly framed, an MIT team has shown.

This year's fellows will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research,  AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.

Targeting these circuits could offer a new way to reverse motor dysfunction and depression in Parkinson’s patients.

Chih-Wei Joshua Liu ’22 is an aspiring physician-physicist working to unlock the secrets of thermodynamics in biology and medicine.

This circuit, which weakens with age, could offer a target to help prevent age-related decline in spatial memory.

Researchers encourage positive use cases of AI-generated characters for education and well-being.

Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions.

Combat veteran and PhD candidate Omar Rutledge drives research on post-traumatic stress disorder.