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A 58-year-old man suffered from a rare neurological-visual disorder called prosopometamorphopsia, in which people look like demons.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

A livestream by Neuralink on Wednesday introduces the public for the first time to the first human recipient of its brain implant.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

A pair of new studies have found that government agents who suffered from the so-called "Havana syndrome" had no lasting brain damage.
Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neurobiologists researched the mysterious mechanism behind generalized fear in the brain and uncovered a method that may possibly stop it.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.
Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vaping is nearly as bad for one's body as smoking cigarettes — and new research indicates it may be harmful to mental health and sleep, too.
Mental Health

By Noor Al-Sibai

A big red flag, according to researchers, is that Neuralink has barely been sharing any information at all.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that certain lifestyle choices warded off dementia symptoms in patients whose brains already contained Alzheimer's makers.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have 3D-printed functional human brain tissue for the first time.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Patients who received the cadaver hormones when they were children in a banned medical practice show signs of Alzheimer's decades later.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

As the opioid crisis worsens, one pharmaceutical company has used some impressive biology to create a non-addictive, non-opioid painkiller. 
Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stanford University researchers have discovered how to use magnetic pulses to make patients more easily hypnotizable.
Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study suggests that daily smoking can shrink your brain, leading to dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have created a "biocomputer" from lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that can perform voice recognition.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

"Welcome to the world Grok — the ultimate ride or die," X CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted. We have absolutely no idea what she's talking about.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Congress members have urged the SEC to investigate Elon Musk for lying about how monkeys were treated at Neuralink.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

A study says that kids who often drink soda are more impulsive, have bad working memory, and may drink alcohol in the future.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface company is apparently ready to begin its robot-assisted brain chip implantation.
Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new paper suggests that marathon runners' bodies might turn to the myelin sheath as a mid-race energy source.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists in the United Kingdom have pinpointed a physiological response from hearing someone mangle the English grammar in a new study.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurobiologist, thinks "free will" is really just the culmination of biology, upbringing, and circumstance.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

Neuralink scientists kept the monkey alive even thought it was clear that it was already terminal from its severe brain swelling.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

A growing body of research shows that poor dental health is linked with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk says that no monkey "has died as a result of a Neuralink implant" and that Neuralink only tests on terminally ill animals.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research that studied thousands of twins who suffered a concussion early in life has grim implications on cognitive decline.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

Mitch McConnell's freezing spells have once again perturbed the nation, but there's apparently nothing happening that brain scans can see. 
Neuroscience and Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

A California-based biotech company says it has successfully implanted lab-made neurons in Parkinson's patients' brains to stimulate dopamine.
Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

We talked to Keith Thomas, the first paralysis patient to receive a movement and feeling-restoring double neural bypass surgery.
Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of Aussie neurosurgeons got the surprise of their lives when they discovered a live worm inside their patient's cranium. 
Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

The device not only converts brain signals into text, but transforms it into full-blown speech embodied in a digtal look-a-like.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

After a decade of research, scientists have managed to recreate a song from brain recordings with the help of AI.
Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers just got a $600,000 grant from the Australian government to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are calling a new drug called donanemab a "turning point" in the fight against Alzheimer's. A trial showed promising results.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

UNESCO cautioned that AI has seen "warp speed" advances in neurotechnology that can read your mind, raising human rights concerns.
Brain Implants

By Frank Landymore

Klotho, a naturally-occurring protein that declines in mammals with age, can improve the cognitive function of aging rhesus monkeys.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A white supremacist took the party drug MDMA as part of a science experiment, and it reportedly helped him drop his racist, bigoted beliefs.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers claim to have created an AI that, trained on a trove of fMRI data, can reconstruct relatively accurate video from brain signals.
Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of French scientists has linked refined carbohydrates to worse cognitive function — even when consumed by young, healthy adults.
Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new study, scientists claim to have unlocked the secret of one man's extreme resilience to early-onset Alzheimer's.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists built a brain monitor that can be deployed through a tiny hole in the cranium and unfold like a flower between bone and brain.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's brain-computer-interface company Neuralink is facing major headwinds in its efforts to kick off human trials for its brain chip dubbed The Link.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A new study mapped how high blood pressure affects regions of the brain from over 30,000 patients, showing changes also linked to dementia.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

Claire "Grimes" Boucher wanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) for her birthday — and one of Neuralink's apparent competitors was happy to comply.
Brain Implants

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pandemic Wasn’t So Bad for Mental Health, Says Broken-Brained Study
Mental Health

By Noor Al-Sibai

They've produced the first ever complete connectome of an insect brain showing every single neoron and synapse, a landmark in neuroscience.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

In spite of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, Bruce Willis' wife is saying that people are still accosting him in public.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

US regulators denied Elon Musk's Neuralink's application to start testing the company's brain chips in humans last year, Reuters reports.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Bruce Willis' family has announced that the "Die Hard" star has been diagnosed with dementia in their first update in just over a year.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Research has linked brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to bizarre, unpredictable cognitive changes — some that might completely alter your sense of self.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

John Carmack — Doom creator, father of virtual reality, and former Meta employee — believes that we're on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many advances in robotic prosthetics focus on rehabilitation. But what about controlling a supplementary limb? Enter the world of movement augmentation.
Brain

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.
Brain

By Frank Landymore

Nita A. Farahany, a "legal ethicist" on futuristic tech, says that tech is already here, and that we need to make the choice of "using it well."
Brain

By Frank Landymore

Vivek Murthy is worried that kids are fighting a losing battle against social media giants that are trying to maximize their easily earned engagement.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

A team of Stanford scientists claims to have come up with a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that can decode speech at up to 62 words per minute.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Considering that the zombie fungus that infects human brains in The Last of Us is real, and currently zombifies insects, it's worth asking.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, people might be a little too willing to believe existential personality label-makers — particularly in machine form.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research suggests that the T-Rex didn't just have loads of teeth, but plenty of neurons — enough to make them the "primates of their time."
Brain

By Frank Landymore