Earl K. Miller received his Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University. After postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health, he joined the Department of Brain ...

Brain circuit keeps tabs on what just happened to aid judgement of what’s happening now ...

Several years ago, MIT neuroscientists showed that they could dramatically reduce the amyloid plaques seen Alzheimer’s disease in mice simply by exposing the animals to light flickering at a specific ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at ...

Every day our brains strive to optimize a trade-off: With lots of things happening around us even as we also harbor many internal drives and memories, somehow our thoughts must be flexible yet focused ...

Evidence that non-invasive sensory stimulation of 40 Hz gamma frequency brain rhythms can reduce Alzheimer’s disease pathology and symptoms, already shown with light and sound by multiple research ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

Brain waves carry information. A new “Cytoelectric Coupling” hypothesis posits that fluctuating electric fields optimize brain network efficiency and stability by shaping the brain’s molecular ...

One of the most significant genetic risk factors for developing Alzheimer’s disease is a gene called APOE4, which is carried by almost half of all Alzheimer’s patients. A new study from MIT shows that ...

Expression of the gene GPCPD1 in astrocyte cells is associated with cognitive resilience in people with Alzheimer’s pathology. Here white arrows indicate instances of GPCPD1 expression (blue) in ...

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

The gist: Nerve bundles in the brainstem are hard to see clearly with brain scans. A new AI tool can reliably map eight bundles in the living human brainstem in diffusion MRI scans. This technology ...