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A new neural implant was able to decode a paralyzed man's thoughts and turn them into words written on a screen, granting him the ability to communicate.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a nanobot swarm that can read and transmit your brain activity, allowing them to wirelessly diagnose disease or analyze neural signals.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

California-based startup Kernel is about to start shipping a $50,000 mind-reading helmet to dozens of customers across the US.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A new brain-computer interface system can determine whether you'll be attracted to specific faces, even before you look at them.
Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Brain computer interface pioneer Miguel Nicolelis says that Elon Musk's Neuralink is all theatre and no substance with underwhelming tech.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A paralyzed man with a brain implant has challenged the rhesus monkey from Neuralink to a game of Pong using only their minds.
Brain

By Tony Ho Tran

Even a Tiny Bit of Drinking Damages Your Brain, Scientists Say
Brain

By Foster Kamer

The Canadian province of New Brunswick is tracking 48 cases of a mysterious new brain disease that has neurobiologists stumped, the BBC reports.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Exposure to air pollution seems to cause short-term cognitive defecits in older white men, according to an alarming new study.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

As Neuralink continues to develop its neural implant technology, experts have concerns about what that would mean for personal privacy.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found traces of aluminum in the same place in donor brains as the toxic protein clumps that eventually cause Alzheimer's Disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink recently showcased a macaque playing "Pong" with its mind. Researchers in the field are unimpressed.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Experts say that ethical concerns over growing brain-like neural organoids or implanting human brain cells into animals are unfounded, at least for now.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Roughly one in three coronavirus patients are diagnosed with some sort of neurological or psychological condition within six months, according to a study.
Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A gruesome study found that one kind of brain cell actually gets more active and starts to grow for hours after people die.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that they could use precise ultrasound to read neural activity and even predict behavior before it happens.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A new approach to brain-computer interface takes away implants and replaces them with millions of nanoparticles that can read neural activity.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A startup wants to deliver cancer drugs directly to brain tumors via tiny, injectible devices that look like little drills.
Brain

By Dan Robitzski

As the pandemic rages on, the mental health and wellbeing of young adults and children is suffering to an alarming degree.
Mental Health

By Dan Robitzski

Valve CEO Gabe Newell says his company is working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) headset that can make video games more immersive than ever.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A brain implant that delivers imperceptible, personalized electric shocks is successfully treating a woman with severe depression.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists reconstructed a dinosaur's brain from scans of well-preserved fossils, learning they had been wrong about how the species lived in the process.
Brain

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is trying to develop technology that could read a soldier's thoughts, allowing them to communicate silently.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface doesn't actually touch the brain or require open-skull surgery. Rather, it snakes through the jugular vein and listens in.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Hyperloop has made the reasonable decision to learn what 600 MPH travel does to the brain before transporting passengers at 600 MPH.
Brain

By Dan Robitzski

New high-resolution brain scans enabled doctors to discover a new organ hiding in the human skull: a fourth pair of salivary glands.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

To come up with new ways to treat aneurysms and improve on existing treatments a team of researchers developed the first-ever living 3D-printed aneurysm.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

New research links Parkinson's Disease dementia to the activity of a specific hormone found in our guts, perhaps leading to new treatments or diagnostics.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

In case it didn't cause enough problems, fracking can also be devastating for the mental health of people who live nearby.
Mental Health

By Dan Robitzski

A rare neurodegenerative disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is becoming more common in Japan as its population ages.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

In an unusual case report, a high dose of Ambien temporarily restored the ability to speak and walk to a man who'd spent eight years in a coma-like state.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing body of evidence, the New York Times reports, that COVID adversely affects the memory and concentration of some patients.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Jon Christian

Doctors studying the cadavers of people who died from COVID-19 identified traces of the coronavirus in half of their brains.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface system can generate an image of a face based just on someone's neural activity as they picture certain characteristics.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study on alcohol consumption found that those who drank to the point of passing out developed dementia at over twice the normal rate.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

As colleges and universities open their doors, it's becoming clear that they are not prepared to offer mental healthcare to everyone who will need it.
Mental Health

By Dan Robitzski

A study involving hundreds of Russian cosmonaut brain scans reveal how the brain temporariy changes after months in orbit.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, Elon Musk held a prototype product demo for Neuralink. But experts in the crowd remain unimpressed by his bold, unsubstantiated claims
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers showed that electrical stimulation through simple ear pieces improved adult participants' abilities to recognize foreign language tones.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists studying how sex chromosomes are linked to differences in the brain has to tread lightly, lest their work be misrepresented.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors managed to "delete" opioid addictions from the brains of lab mice by shining an implanted fiber optic light that prevented withdrawal.
Brain

By Dan Robitzski

As part of a Huntington's trial, researchers found that high doses of ketamine were capable of switching on and off the brain activity in sheep.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A new study on fruit flies found ways to quantitatively measure the level of consciousness that a fly was currently experiencing.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a brain implant that allowed the blind and previously sighted participants who lost their sight in adulthood "see" letters.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Technology developed by a nonprofit specializing in medical tech has allowed a man to feel and move his hand again after a spinal chord injury.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that long exposure to microgravity caused long-term expansions in astronauts' brains and cerebrospinal fluid.
Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say they've built a system that can translate brain signals directly into text — allow users to think text directly into a computer.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Jon Christian

According to new research, something happens during a musical performance: the brain activity of listeners synchronizes with that of the musician.
Brain

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists built a neural net that connected artificial brain cells to living biological ones, which signalled back and forth over the internet.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of neuroscientists scanned the brains of lifelong bullies and found that bullies' brains appear to be smaller than other brains.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Jon Christian

Not that we needed science to tell us, but: a Western diet with fatty, sugary, salty foods lousy with red meat and processed products are making us dumber.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Foster Kamer

Here's why surgeons kept a talented musician awake and playing violin while they performed surgery on a portion of her brain.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Jacob Banas

New research shows that marijuana use makes people more susceptible to believing a false memory, a troubling development for the legal system.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Using a bionic eye developed by Spanish neuroengineer Eduardo Fernandez, a blind woman was able to see for the first time in 16 years.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at Google just published an incredibly-detailed 3D map of neural connections in the brain of a fruit fly, including 20 million synapses.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

To fight his alcohol addiction, Frank Plummer agreed to have electrodes implanted into his brain as part of an experimental study.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

Scientists built a bizarre, tiny circuit that changes as electricity flows through it that they say could help them construct an artificial brain.
Brain Implants

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers used a type of artificial intelligence (AI) to predict ADHD in patients by having it analyze magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

MIT researchers have found that they could teach test subjects how to manipulate their own alpha brain waves, thereby improving attention at a given task.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists recreated the bizarre activity of brain cells in tiny new chips, potentially leading to a new generation of artificial medical devices.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A single dose of ketamine helped heavy drinkers cut their alcohol intake in half during an experimental study out of the United Kingdom.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

Decades later, people who had half their brain removed as children have stronger neural connections and function than doctors expected.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A new study of the effects of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the psychoactive ingredient in ayahuasca, could help us finally understand consciousness.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

By targeting protein-producing cells in the brains of mouse models of Down syndrome, researchers reversed some of the animals' cognitive impairments.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser