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How the brain solves complicated problems
June 11, 2025

How the brain solves complicated problems

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Anne Trafton | MIT News
Study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.
Envisioning a future where health care tech leaves some behind
June 9, 2025

Envisioning a future where health care tech leaves some behind

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Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
The winning essay of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize puts health care disparities at the forefront.
How the brain distinguishes between ambiguous hypotheses
June 6, 2025

How the brain distinguishes between ambiguous hypotheses

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Anne Trafton | MIT News
Neural activity patterns can encode competing hypotheses about which landmark will lead to the correct destination.
Former MIT researchers advance a new model for innovation
June 6, 2025

Former MIT researchers advance a new model for innovation

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Zach Winn | MIT News
Focused research organizations (FROs) undertake large research efforts and have begun to yield scientific advances.
Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase
June 5, 2025

Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase

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David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
MIT study finds an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia.
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June 5, 2025

Finding the right path to a future in cognitive science

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Jarret Bencks

As Karla Perez neared the finish line for her bachelor's degree, she knew she wanted to dive deeper into brain sciences, but she wasn't quite sure how to take the plunge.

Rationale engineering generates a compact new tool for gene therapy
May 28, 2025

Rationale engineering generates a compact new tool for gene therapy

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Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Researchers redesign a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria, making it an efficient editor of human DNA.
Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
May 27, 2025

Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity

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Anne Trafton | MIT News
MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.
Daily mindfulness practice reduces anxiety for autistic adults
May 13, 2025

Daily mindfulness practice reduces anxiety for autistic adults

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Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
After six weeks of practicing mindfulness with the help of a smartphone app, adults with autism reported lasting improvements in their well-being.
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May 13, 2025

Researching consciousness to refine anesthetic care

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Jarret Bencks

Since high school, Alex Bardon has been interested in biology. As an undergrad at Caltech, she was introduced to the world of computer science.

Systems neuroscience was the place where those interests met.

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