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- New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery
While brain implants usually require hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical costs and risky surgical procedures, circulatronics technology holds the potential to make therapeutic brain implants accessible to all by eliminating the need for surgery, says Deblina Sarkar, the AT T Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT Media Lab
- Neuroscience | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
After 16 years leading Picower Institute, Li-Huei Tsai will sharpen focus on research, teaching Tsai, who has grown the MIT neuroscience institute, will increase focus on research including Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome March 20, 2026 Read full story
- Artificial intelligence | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds
- A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation . . .
With a new surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, MIT researchers restored a natural walking gait in people with amputations below the knee Seven patients were able to walk faster, avoid obstacles, and climb stairs more naturally than people with a traditional amputation
- Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain
MIT CSAIL researchers developed “linear oscillatory state-space models” to leverage harmonic oscillators Capturing the stability and efficiency of biological neural systems and translating these principles into a machine learning framework, the LinOSS approach can help predict complex systems
- AI models are powerful, but are they biologically plausible?
Researchers hypothesize that a powerful type of AI model known as a transformer could be implemented in the brain through networks of neuron and astrocyte cells The work could offer insights into how the brain works and help scientists understand why transformers are so effective at machine-learning tasks
- Immune-informed brain aging research offers new treatment . . . - MIT News
Understanding how interactions between the central nervous system and the immune system contribute to problems of aging, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, arthritis and more, can generate new leads for therapeutic development, speakers said at MIT’s symposium “The Neuro-Immune Axis and the Aging Brain ”
- Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn
Mark Harnett, an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences, as well as an investigator at the McGovern Institute, says his team's recent work opens new opportunities to investigate possible parallels between the brain and machine learning
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