Neuroscientists distinguish brain regions based on what they do, but now have a new way to overlay information about how they are built, too. To understand the massive capabilities and complexities of ...

My late father, Richard Bergland, M.D. (1932-2007) published The Fabric of Mind in 1986. For the book cover, dad insisted on a sagittal plane view; he liked how this vantage point elucidates major ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

More than a decade after Chad Robins and his brother Harlan co-founded Adaptive Biotechnologies to translate insights from the adaptive immune system into diagnostics and drugs, Robins, who is ...

Yongsoo Kim receives funding from National Institute of Health. The brain plays an essential role in how people navigate the world by generating both thought and behavior. Despite being one of the ...

In a July 2018 MIT News article, “ Charting the Cerebellum, ” first author Xavier Guell of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, describes his team’s state-of-the-art mapping of motor and ...