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Prior to the new study, scientists suspected involvement of the circuits ultimately implicated, but were stumped by a seeming paradox. A crossroads of convergent circuits in an emotion hub deep [...]

It’s that time of year again: holiday parties and family feasts! One of the most frequently made—and most often broken—New Year’s resolutions is to follow a sensible diet. All goes well until you [...]

Kay Tye gave a talk at Harvard University: “Dissecting neural circuits underlying behaviors relevant to psychiatric disease in animal models”. The ability to differentiate between [...]

Boyden, Ting, and Tye receive grants for innovative medical research. Three MIT faculty members have been awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants designed to promote innovative [...]

The MIT professor has earned a 2013 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to further her obesity research. MIT assistant professor of neuroscience Kay M. Tye has studied the brain circuits [...]

New findings may help neuroscientists pinpoint better targets for antianxiety treatments. Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias, and obsessive-compulsive [...]

Neurostimulation as a tool for Basic Science and Medicine.  Anxiety disorders are the single most common class of psychiatric diseases, afflicting up to 28% of the adult population. Although [...]

Spring 2012 Picower Institute Symposium. New Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental Health… Original Video »

Researchers discover a brain circuit that can instantly dampen—or exacerbate—anxiety in mice. With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear [...]