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Exploring the brain at the Media Lab

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Courtesy of the researchers (Synthetic Neurobiology)

by Janine Liberty

March 12, 2018

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Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to increase public interest in and understanding of the importance and progress of brain research.  It's organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and Society for Neuroscience, among others.

Dive into Brain Awareness Week with a look at some of the research happening at the Media Lab to understand, improve, and heal the brain.

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Optogenetics: Molecules enabling neural control by light

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BrainBeat: Breath-based music therapy

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Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
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Tools for recording high-speed brain dynamics

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Neural interface technology for advanced prosthetic limbs

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Predicting perceived emotions in animated GIFs with 3D convolutional neural networks

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Prototype strategies for treating brain disorders

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Hands-On Ecology: Fostering Neuroinclusivity in STEM Education

What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (as …
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Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNAs,…
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8K Brain Tour: Interactive 3D visualization of terabyte-sized nanoscale brain images at 8K resolution

8K Brain Tour is a visualization system for terabyte-scale, three-dimensional (3D) microscopy images of brains.  High resolution (8K o…
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Understanding normal and pathological brain computations

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