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A startup in Switzerland has built a unique computer processor made from 16 tiny brains made from human tissue, basically a living computer.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Connect 16 Mini Brains Made of Human Tissue to Create a “Living Computer”

By Sharon Adarlo

In a gruesome video, a biologist proposes that doctors can perform head transplants by using advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.

Neuroscience and Brain

This Deranged Plan to Transplant a Human Head From One Body to Another Might Be the Dumbest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

By Sharon Adarlo

Despite issues manifesting in its first implantee, the FDA has given Neuralink the green light to implant a brain chip in a second patient.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Jamming Wires Deeper Into Second Patient’s Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors administered the "love hormone" oxytocin to patients suffering from feelings of loneliness, with intriguing results.

Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Administer Oxytocin Nasal Spray to Lonely People

By Jon Christian

Neuralink cofounder Elon Musk is now seeking a second volunteer to receive the company's next experimental brain implant.

Neuroscience and Brain

After Accident With First Patient, Neuralink Seeks Volunteer for Second Implant

By Jon Christian

Scientists have begun to study how reading fiction affects your brain. Spoiler alert: the news is very good

If You Read a Lot of Fiction, Scientists Have Very Good News About Your Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now saying he could out-debate the presidential frontrunners even if he ate five more brain worms.

RFK Junior Threatens to Eat “Five More Brain Worms”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had some bizarre health conditions — including, as he claims, a dead parasite in his brain.

Presidential Candidate Says Doctors Found a Worm in His Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Chinese company announced that they have successfully developed a brain chip and implanted it into a monkey.

Neuroscience and Brain

China Shows Off Monkey With Brain Chip Allowing It to Control Robotic Arm

By Sharon Adarlo

OJ Simpson's family has one answer for those who want to study the late footballer and accused killer's brain for injuries: "Hard no."

OJ Simpson’s Family Refuses to Let Scientists Examine His Brain for CTE

By Noor Al-Sibai

The brain computer interface (BCI) device can be used by inexperienced patients to play games within just a few sessions.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain Cap Lets People Play Video Games With Their Minds

By Frank Landymore

Results from a study suggests that transfusions of blood, bone marrow, organs and other biological matter can spread Alzheimer's Disease.

Neuroscience and Brain

Alzheimer’s May Spread Through Blood Transfusions, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

People’s brains have gotten bigger compared to those born in the 1930s, according to research, and that bigger brains may stave off dementia.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Find Human Brains Are Getting Larger and Larger

By Sharon Adarlo

The first person to ever get a Neuralink transplant previously had questions about the company — but his concerns, apparently, were quelled.

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Neuralink Told Its First Human Patient Not to Worry About Those Gruesome Monkey Deaths

By Noor Al-Sibai

The first person to ever get a Neuralink implant in their brain learned about the company when a friend called him under the influence.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink’s First Patient Heard About Brain Implant in Drunk-Dial From Friend

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Neuroscience and Brain

Rare Neurological Condition Makes Man See Every Face as a Demon

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

Paralyzed Neuralink Patient Playing “Civilization VI” With His Mind

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.

Government Scientists Find No Brain Damage in “Havana Syndrome” Survivors

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

Scientists Discover “Switch” That May Turn Off PTSD Fear Response

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.

Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

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.

Vaping Linked to Mental Health Issues

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

Doctors Concerned About Neuralink’s First Patient

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

If You Have Signs of Dementia, Doctors Found a Way to Help

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

Scientists 3D Print Functional Human Brain Tissue

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

Alzheimer’s Spread Through Growth Hormones Extracted From Cadavers, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

New Non-Opioid Drug Blocks Pain Signals Before They Can Reach Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Scientists Say Stimulating Part of Brain Makes Subjects Easier to Hypnotize

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

Smoking Cigarettes Does Something Horrifying to Your Brain, Scientists Find

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

Computer Made From Human Brain Cells Can Perform Voice Recognition

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.

CEO of Twitter Posts Brain-Meltingly Idiotic Message About Elon’s Foulmouthed AI

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

Lawmakers Demand Investigation Into Carnage at Neuralink

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

Kids Who Drink Lots of Soda Found to Show More Impulsive Behavior, Worse Working Memory

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Neuralink Ready to Start Letting Robots Implant Chips into Human Brains

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

Marathon Runners’ Bodies Appear to Be Devouring Brain Tissue, Scientists Say

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

Hearing Bad Grammar Causes Physical Distress, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We Don’t Have Free Will After All

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

Autopsy Found That Neuralink Implant “Ruptured” Monkey’s 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

Research Suggests That Bad Dental Health May Increase Risk of Dementia

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

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Tests Only on Terminally Ill Monkeys

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

If You Had a Concussion When You Were Younger, Scientists Have Bad News

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

Mitch McConnell’s Doctor Says His Brain Scans Are Clear

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.

Biotech Company Says It’s Implanted Dopamine-Making Cells in Patients’ Brains

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

His Entire Body Was Paralyzed. Then They Put AI-Powered Chips in His 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.

Doctors Stunned to Find a Live Worm Inside a Patient’s 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

New Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Patient to Communicate Through Digital Avatar

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Extracted a Pink Floyd Song From Someone’s Brain Waves. Here’s What It Sounds Like.

By Noor Al-Sibai

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The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers

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.

Scientists Working on Merging AI With Human Brain Cells

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

New Drug Hailed as “Turning Point” in Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease

By Victor Tangermann

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

UN Warns That AI-Powered Brain Implants Could Spy on Our Innermost Thoughts

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

Anti-Aging Injection Boosts Memories in Monkeys, Scientists Find

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

Scientists Gave a Nazi MDMA and He Renounced Racism

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

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

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.

This AI Generates Video From Brain Signals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Refined Carbs Linked to Brain Trouble

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

Scientists Intrigued by Man With Mutation That Protects Against Alzheimer’s

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

Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes

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

Scientists Detect Surge of Brain Activity in Dying Coma Patients

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

Neuralink Seems to Be in Quite a Bit of Trouble

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

High Blood Pressure May Cause Dementia, Scientists Say

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.

Grimes Using Custom Brain Interface From Elon Musk Competitor

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

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

Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect 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

Paparazzi Won’t Stop Harassing Bruce Willis Even Though He Has Dementia

By Noor Al-Sibai