'For patients and families confronting painful and burdensome genetic disorders, scientists at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research have a message: your day has come.' - MIT Spectrum

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Feng Zhang MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Dina Katabi buy describes how she is using her AI technology to detect brain disorders like #Parkinsons before symptoms even appear (or that current standards of care can detect). #2024springsymposium MIT Open Learning Wellcome McLean Hospital

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'We have a sense of urgency not unlike the Manhattan project...but without the moral ambiguity' - John Gabrieli on the global mental health crisis. #2024springsymposium MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Open Learning Wellcome McLean Hospital Livestream: mcgovern.mit.edu/events/mcgover…

Today is the day! Our spring symposium, jointly hosted by Wellcome McLean Hospital + MIT Open Learning, is about to begin. Livestream link here 👇

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Congrats to Guoping Feng and all of the newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences!

We are so proud of Prof Feng and the groundbreaking work being conducted in his lab! 🎉 MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Science Broad Institute

We're co-hosting a one day symposium with MIT at McGovern Institute

We'll be covering Wellcome's MH funding opportunities & have an excellent line up of speakers including John Gabrieli, Dina Katabi & John Krystal

📆Friday 3rd May

Register here: mcgovern.science/2024symposium

'There is one constant in everything she does: an indefatigable curiosity that pushes her toward the edge of risk—or, as she likes to call it, 'the intellectual abyss.''
- MIT Technology Review profile, Polina Anikeeva Bioelectronics @ MIT MIT School of Engineering MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences technologyreview.com/2024/04/23/109…

“Working with the folks that I’ve been able to recruit — grad students, techs, undergrads, and postdocs — is probably the thing that really matters the most to me.” - McGovern Investigator Mark Harnett

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This is the remarkable (and little known) story of our co-founder Lore Harp McGovern. 🤩

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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos, a graduate student in Hugh Herr’s lab, is developing an optical technology with the potential to restore movement in people with spinal cord injury or stroke.

#spinalcordinjury #cordinjury #stroke #optogenetics #neurotechnology #neuroscience #muscles

Novel interfaces with the peripheral nervous system are helping McGovern scientists Atharva Sahasrabudhe Bioelectronics @ MIT Guillermo Herrera-Arcos explore new ways to treat injury and disease. MIT Science MIT School of Engineering MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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We love introducing young scientists to our research!

McGovern Investigator Polina Anikeeva captivates the audience Coolidge Corner Theatre tonight for the screening of Werner Herzog’s documentary “Theater of Thought.” Anikeeva’s magnetic nanotechnology is featured in Herzog’s sweeping film about the human brain.