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The @NatureNeuro paper by Guoping Feng and Tingting Zhou is out today 👇nature.com/articles/s4159…

Impairments of a brain circuit necessary for processing new information may help to explain why some people with schizophrenia lose touch with reality, according to a new McGovern study.👇 @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/03/18/bra…

The collaborative research paper, led by Adam Eisen @MillerLabMIT @MIT_Picower + @FieteGroup appears in @CellReports today 👇 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Three different anesthesia drugs all work by disrupting the brain’s balance between stability and excitability, MIT researchers find. The discovery could make it easier to develop new technologies for monitoring patients undergoing anesthesia. mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/03/17/thr…

Read the original @NatureHumBehav paper by senior author @JoshHMcDermott 👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

How does your brain follow one voice in a noisy room? MIT scientists found that the brain may focus on a speaker by boosting neural signals tuned to features of that voice—like its pitch. This insight could help improve cochlear implants. 🦻 mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/03/13/how…

The @Nature paper, by senior author @mitbrainandcog associate professor Mark Harnett, is out today 👇 nature.com/articles/s4158…

How does the brain know which neurons to adjust during learning in order to optimize behavior? MIT researchers discovered that brains can use cell-by-cell error signals to do this — surprisingly similar to how AI systems are trained via backpropagation. mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/02/25/neu…

Our researchers are studying how to deliver life-changing gene therapies to the brain, which requires crossing the protective blood-brain barrier. This mouse spinal cord image illustrates the various cell types that compose this barrier. Image: @GroverJosh7442 @shenchenjiex

Look 👀 who is #78 on @Forbes list of America's greatest innovators! Congrats Professor @zhangf! forbes.com/sites/alexknap…

May your hippocampus never forget where you hitched your steed, your prefrontal cortex make only brilliant decisions at full gallop, and your synapses stay as strong as a champion racehorse. Happy Year of the Fire Horse from your friends at the McGovern Institute!

Our researchers don't just study the brain - they help young students see themselves as future neuroscientists. @mitbrainandcog research scholar Zadriana Smith + postdoc @HalieOlson recently took time away from their labs to inspire the next generation of neuroscientists! ✨

What a delightful video that @HHMI produced about McGovern Investigator Feng Zhang! Watch to learn about Prof Zhang's latest fascinating research and what he describes as the "holy grail of medicine." 🧬 youtube.com/watch?v=_Uimla…

MIT researchers @_coltoncasto @ev_fedorenko have found a "satellite" component of the brain’s dedicated language network in the cerebellum, a region better known for coordinating movement. Learn more 👉mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/01/22/lan… @NeuroCellPress paper 👉cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Today, we officially welcome @sdorkenw to the McGovern + @mitbrainandcog families! Prof Dorkenwald reconstructs maps of neuronal circuits to investigate how they support complex computations in the brain. Please join us in welcoming him to MIT! 🥳 mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/12/15/all…

We are excited to share that Fan Wang is among 18 MIT faculty who have been selected as recipients of MIT's Committed to Caring award for 2025-27. The award recognizes exceptional mentors whose dedication to students extends well beyond the classroom. 🤩 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-facul…

A new study out of Mehrdad Jazayeri's lab reveals how the brain integrates observations of others’ experiences with personal experience to better understand the world. mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/01/07/lea… The findings are published today in the journal @Nature.