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A little over a year ago, Kay Tye took the big step of moving her lab from MIT to the Salk Institute in San Diego. A true testament to her mentorship style, some 15 people in her Boston lab also [...]

Six faculty members are granted tenure in four departments. … Kay Tye dissects the synaptic and cellular mechanisms in emotion and reward processing with the goal of understanding how they [...]

Kay Tye is Skyping from a hotel in Turks and Caicos, a sultry escape from her hometown of frigid Cambridge, Massachusetts. She speaks with a breathless, wide-eyed giddiness, and with her [...]

Identifying how the connections between regions of the brain contribute to anxiety. Kay Tye began her education as an undergraduate research assistant at MIT from 1999-2003. She continued her [...]

Today, MIT Technology Review revealed its annual list of Innovators Under 35. For more than a decade, the publication has recognized a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work has [...]

Monday Night Neuroscience Seminars – Kay Tye, MIT – “Distinct Amygdala Projections Control Opposing Behavioral Outputs” The ability to differentiate between positive and negative environmental [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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