A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

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 ...

Powerful statistical methods are available for the analysis of quantitative traits in experimental species. To a large extent, the development of these methods has been driven by the increased ...

In bacteria, as in eukaryotes, networks of physical interactions among proteins are at the core of all cellular processes, enabling cells to execute diverse complex functions in a concerted and ...

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 ...