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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

By Simon Spichak

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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As Japan’s Population Ages, a Rare Brain-Eating Disease Is Becoming More Common

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.

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Ambien Temporarily Restored a Man’s Ability to Walk, Speak

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.

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Doctors Say Many COVID Survivors Have Memory Loss, Brain Fog

By Jon Christian

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

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Doctors Find Coronavirus in Brains of Cadavers

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

New System Reads Your Brain Waves, Draws a Picture of What You’re Thinking About

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

Research Links Blackout Drinking to Doubled Dementia Risk

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.

The Mental Healthcare Crisis Coming to American Universities

By Dan Robitzski

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

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According to Scans, Astronaut Brains “Reorganize” During Space Travel

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

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Neuralink’s Demo Didn’t Impress Experts

By Dan Robitzski

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

Zapping the Brain Improved Language Learning Abilities by 13%

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.

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Scientists Studying Sex Differences in the Brain Fear Their Work Will Be Misrepresented

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.

Scientists Hack Mouse Brains to “Erase” Opioid Addiction

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.

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Scientists Gave Ketamine to Sheep and Were Baffled by the Result

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientists Claim New Method Can Measure Consciousness

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 Implant Allows Blind People to “See” Letters

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.

Cutting-Edge Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed Man Move and Feel Again

By Victor Tangermann

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

New Research: Space Travel Causes Astronauts’ Brains to Expand

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.

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Scientists Debut System to Translate Thoughts Directly Into Text

By Jon Christian

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

New Research: Listeners Synchronize Brain Activity With Musicians

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.

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Artificial and Biological Neurons Just Talked Over the Internet

By Dan Robitzski