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Compulsive overeating and sugar addiction are major threats to human health, but potential treatments face the risk of impairing normal feeding behaviors that are crucial for survival. A study [...]

Being overweight or obese usually isn’t really about the body – it’s about the brain. Overeating and compulsive eating are often about how the brain resorts back to ancient eating habits that are [...]

Nerve cells that control overeating are distinct from those active in normal feeding, study shows manipulating specific sets of brain cells can quash a mouse’s overindulgence of sugar. The cells [...]

Scientists have defined neurons responsible for excessive food consumption at an unprecedented level of detail. Two independent research teams have defined populations of neurons in the [...]

The Picower Institute congratulates Kay Tye, a Picower principal investigator and the Whitehead Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences who is [...]

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 [...]

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

Drugs for psychiatric illnesses aren’t very effective. But new research is offering renewed hope for better medicines. Novartis’s research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a large incubator-like [...]

Kay Tye gave a talk at HealthEmotions Research Institute’s 2014 Wisconsin Symposium on emotion: “Distinct Functions of Different Amygdala Projections on Emotional [...]

MIT neuroscientist Kay Tye finds a discrete brain circuit that controls social interaction, which is impaired in many brain disorders. Impaired social interaction is a common feature of autism, [...]

Have you heard about optogenetics yet? If not, you soon will. Optogenetics techniques are sweeping neuroscience research. Named as the Method of the Year in 2010 by Nature Methods, optogenetics [...]

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 [...]