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New research says EMFs emmitted by cell phones could be causing Alzheimer's because of excess calcium buildup in the brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Alzheimer’s May Be Caused by Cell Phones, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Space tourists headed to the International Space Station this month are bringing a special headset that can map changes in their brain activity during spaceflight.

Neuroscience and Brain

SpaceX Space Tourists Are Bringing a Brain-Reading Helmet to Space This Month

By Victor Tangermann

Some users who've taken "magic" mushrooms have experienced "wood-lover's paralysis," also called WLP, and lose control of their body through temporarily.

Neuroscience and Brain

People Who Took Psychedelic Mushrooms Say They Lost Control of Their Bodies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

For the first time ever, a fully paralyzed ALS patient has used a brain implant to communicate — and his pioneering requests were delightful.

Completely Paralyzed Patient Gets Brain Implant, Asks For Beer And Heavy Metal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cognitive neuroscience professor Guillaume Thierry explores the experience of death and how long our brains can stil process information after we die.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Ponders Whether People Remain Conscious After Having Their Heads Chopped Off

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like at least one corporation may finally have reached their ultimate frontier: advertising to us in our sleep.

Neuroscience and Brain

Woman Says Coors Paid Her $1,000 to Successfully Inject Advertisements Into Her Dreams

By Noor Al-Sibai

US-based Kernel released a piece of wearable helmet tech called the Kernel Flow that uses near-infrared light to scan your brain with lasers.

Startup Builds Brain-Reading Helmet That Scans Your Brain in Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Turns out drinking can cause worse side effects than a hangover, even when done lightly.

Just One Alcoholic Drink Per Day Appears to Shrink Your Brain, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists had the opportunity to study the brain waves of a dying person — and found an increase in activity associated with memory and dreams.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Recorded the Brain Activity of a Person as They Died, and the Results Are Astonishing

By Tony Ho Tran

Neuralink has responded via blog post to say that yes, they have euthanized a few monkeys during the brain experiments.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Says 21 Percent of Its Monkeys Died Because of Brain Implant Issues

By Tony Ho Tran

An animal rights advocacy group accuses Neuralink and Elon Musk specifically of facilitating and funding the torture and mutilation of monkeys.

Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Accused of Abusing Brain-Hacked Monkeys

By Tony Ho Tran

Johnny Knoxville suffered a brain hemorrhage and cognitive decline for three months following a bull hit stunt filming "Jackass Forever."

Neuroscience and Brain

Johnny Knoxville Says He Suffered Brain Damage From Stunt in New “Jackass” Movie

By Lonnie Lee Hood

This Rhode Island man's story of his terrifying and rare brain mold condition reminds us that disease truly is everywhere.

Neuroscience and Brain

Man Alarmed When Doctors Discover Black Mold Growing on His Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers and scientists recently expressed their horror at Musk's goal to connect human brains to computer chips just as Neuralink enters human trials.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Express Concern at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at the University of North Carolina and the University of Missouri did a study of 830 voters to understand the conservative and liberal brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Say There’s Something Psychologically Strange About Trump Voters

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers have discovered that humans experience a “creative sweet spot” in the moments right before we fall asleep that can help solve tough problems.

Neuroscience and Brain

Human Brains Can Solve Hard Problems Moments Before Falling Asleep, Study Finds

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that he co-founded, plans to put brain chips in humans next year.

Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Put Brain Chips in Humans Next Year

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Royal Society B reveals that grandmothers typically have an instinctual and neurological urge to care for their grandchildren.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Scan Grandmas’ Brains, Confirm They REALLY Love Their Grandchildren

By Tony Ho Tran

J.M Stibel, a brain scientist, has discovered evidence that the size of human brains have greatly decreased in the past 50,000 years.

Neuroscience and Brain

Human Brains Are Shrinking, Scientist Warns

By Tony Ho Tran

Stanford scientists have developed a brain implant that allows a man with paralyzed hands to "type" up to 90 words per minute.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain Implant Turns Thoughts Into Text

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers claim to have improved the specific functions of the human brain by using artificial intelligence paired with electrical brain stimulation.

Scientists Claim to Improve Human Brain Function With Implants and AI

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in Spain have successfully created an implant that allowed a blind patient to see by directly stimulating her brain’s visual cortex.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain Implant Lets Blind Patient See Without Eyes

By Tony Ho Tran

New research conducted on five Russian cosmonauts confirms that traveling to space damages the human brain. Now scientists want to know why.

Neuroscience and Brain

Russian Study Confirms That Space Travel Damages Your Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

A brain implant that zaps a woman's brain 300 times per day treated her severe depression after medications failed for years.

Depressed Woman Gets Brain Implant, Says It Caused “Most Intensely Joyous Sensation”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that a protein called sonic hedgehog seems to play a huge role in Parkinson's, potentially revealing new treatment opportunities.

Brain Protein Named After Sonic the Hedgehog May Be Key to Treating Parkinson’s

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists 3D printed living, functional brain cells that they say could be more useful than animals in preclinical research.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists 3D Print Living Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Max Hodak, the former president of Neuralink who recently started a new neurotech company, says that furries are frequently reaching out.

Brain Implant Entrepreneur Says His Inbox Is Filled With Furries

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental neural implant seems to restore both muscular control over and sensation in people's limbs, even when a spinal cord injury is in the way.

Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neural Implant Could Give Spinal Injury Patients Control Over Their Own Limbs Again

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists from Brown University have created tiny microchips designed to be scattered throughout the brain’s surface in order to collect neural data.

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Propose Sprinkling Hundreds of Chips Into Human Brain

By Tony Ho Tran

Departed Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak is working on what appears to be a well-funded new brain interface venture called Science Corp.

Neuroscience and Brain

Departed Neuralink Co-Founder Locks Down $47 Million for Secretive Neuroscience Startup

By Simon Spichak

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

Neuroscience and Brain

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to 3D print a "viable" glioblastoma tumor so that they can develop better, more effective treatments for the deadly brain cancer.

Scientists 3D Print Living, Viable Brain Tumor, to Practice Killing It

By Dan Robitzski

Synchron CEO and founder Thomas Oxley explains how his neural implant startup beat Neuralink in the race to achieve FDA approval.

Neuroscience and Brain

How a Small Neurotech Startup Beat Elon Musk’s Neuralink to Human Studies

By Dan Robitzski

The neurotech company Synchron got FDA approval to start testing its brain implant in human volunteers, beating Neuralink and other rivals to the punch.

Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neuralink Rival Wins Race for Approval To Test Brain Implant in Humans

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found a startling link between heavy coffee drinking and an increased risk of dementia and other brain diseases.

Neuroscience and Brain

Excessive Coffee Drinking Linked to Dementia

By Dan Robitzski

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

Brain-Reading Tech Turned a Paralyzed Man’s Thoughts Into Words

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

Scientists Create Injectable Swarm of Brain Reading Nanosensors

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

Company Starts Shipping Its $50,000 Mind-Reading Helmet

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-Reading Machine Detects Who You Have a Crush On

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

Neuroscience Pioneer Slams Elon Musk’s Neuralink Claims

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.

Man With Brain Implant Challenges Neuralink’s Monkey to “Pong” Game

By Tony Ho Tran

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

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

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

A Mysterious Brain Disease Is Spreading in Canada

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

Something Is Frizzling Up the Brains of Old White Guys

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

Expert: Neuralink Could Sell Your Private Thoughts to the “Highest Bidder”

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

The Stuff Beer Cans Are Made From Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

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

Famed Neurobiologist Slams Neuralink’s Monkey Demo

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

Scientists: Don’t Worry, Adding Human Brain Cells to Animal Brains Is Fine

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.

A Third of COVID Patients Are Diagnosed With “Brain Disease”

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

After You Die, Some Cells in Your Brain Become More Active

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

Caltech Scientists Say They Can Read Human Brain With Ultrasound

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

DARPA Is Funding Nanoparticles That Permeate Brain to Read Neural Signals

By Dan Robitzski

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

Startup Creates Tiny Drill to Burrow Through Your Brain With Magnets

By Dan Robitzski

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

The Pandemic Has Shattered Young People’s 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.

Gaming CEO: Brain Interfaces Will Allow Us to Edit Our Feelings

By Victor Tangermann

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

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Implant Successfully Fights Off Depression, Scientists Say

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.

Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Dinosaur 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

The US Army Is Developing Tech That Reads Soldiers’ Minds

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

New Brain-Computer Interface Doesn’t Even Need to Touch the 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.

Virgin Hyperloop Wonders: What Does 600 MPH Travel Do to the 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

Scientists Claim to Discover New Organ in Human Skull

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.

Scientists Create World’s First “Living” Human Brain Aneurysm

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

Doctors Link Parkinson’s to a Hormone in Your Gut

By Dan Robitzski

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

Sociologist: Fracking is a Mental Health Disaster

By Dan Robitzski