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

Neuroscience and Brain

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.

Neuroscience and Brain

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.

Neuroscience and Brain

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.

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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.

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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.

Neuroscience and Brain

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.

Neuroscience and Brain

Artificial and Biological Neurons Just Talked Over the Internet

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

Scientists Scanned Brains of Bullies and Found Something Grim

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

Shocker: The Western World’s Diet Is Making Everyone Scientifically Brain-Dumber

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

Watch a Violinist Play While Surgeons Operate on Her Brain

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

New Research: Marijuana Can Lead to False Memory Formation

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.

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Scientists Plugged a Bionic Eye Directly Into This Woman’s 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

Google’s 3D Map of a Fruit Fly Brain Will Blow Your Mind

By Victor Tangermann

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

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This Scientist Got Brain Surgery to Fight His Alcohol Addiction

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.

Scientists: Tiny Silver Wires Demonstrate “Brain-Like” Properties

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.

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This AI Can Detect ADHD Better than Humans

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.

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MIT Says New Technique Lets You Hack Your Own Brain Waves

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

Scientists Finally Build Artificial Brain Cells

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

Study: Want to Stop Drinking So Much? Do Ketamine Once.

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

People With Half Their Brain Removed Are Doing Surprisingly Well

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

Research: DMT’s Effects on Brainwaves Could Explain Consciousness

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

Scientists Reverse Cognitive Deficits of Down Syndrome in Mice

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk recently claimed that Neuralink tech would be able to "cure" autism, along with schizophrenia. But autism isn't a brain disease that needs a cure.

Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk Claims Neuralink Can “Solve” Autism, Schizophrenia

By Dan Robitzski

A trial that's the first of its kind in the United States will test the ability of brain implants to help people overcome their drug addiction.

Doctors Are Using Human Brain Implants to Fight Drug Addiction

By Kristin Houser

Russian researchers have created an AI that analyzes electroencephalography data and draws what a person is looking at in real time.

This AI Decodes Your Brainwaves and Draws What You’re Looking at

By Kristin Houser

Doctors in Texas recorded a livestream of a brain surgery during which the person under the knife, Jenna Schardt, was awake and talking.

Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Just Livestreamed a Brain Surgery on Facebook

By Kristin Houser

Your brain is hardwired to prevent you from considering your fear of your own death, according to a new study set for publication in the journal NeuroImage.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Research Explains Why We Don’t Live In Constant Fear of Death

By Kristin Houser

This bizarre organism can learn without a brain, digest food without a mouth or stomach, and rapidly heal itself after being chopped in half.

Paris Zoo Unveils Bizarre “Blob” That Can Learn With No Brain

By Jon Christian

The U.S. military is developing non-invasive technology that would allow soldiers to control drones with just their brain.

The Pentagon Wants to Control Drones With Soldiers’ Brain Waves

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers in Japan have developed a new way to keep brain tissue from animals alive and viable for up to 25 days.

Scientists Keep Brain Tissue From Dead Mice Alive For Weeks

By Victor Tangermann

To help her deal with depression, Sofia Barrett-Ibarria hired a dominatrix life coach — and she's not the only one seeking out dommes for that purpose.

New Mental Health Trend: Ditching the Therapist for a Dominatrix

By Kristin Houser

Various companies now sell devices they say can prevent concussions — but the science simply doesn't back up their claims.

Neuroscience and Brain

Experts: Football’s Anti-Concussion Devices Are a Dangerous Scam

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Just Bought a Brain-Computer Interface Startup

Facebook Just Bought a Brain-Computer Interface Startup

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers have created a handheld sonic gun designed to help the nation's military and law enforcement agencies disperse crowds.

China’s New Weapon: A Sonic Gun That Vibrates Your Brain

By Kristin Houser

As brain-computer interface and neural implant technology improves, the Royal Society argues we may soon be able to communicate telepathically.

Scientists: Brain Implants Could Essentially Make Us Telepathic

By Dan Robitzski

According to researchers from Imperial College London, the party drug MDMA could be an effective treatment for alcohol addiction.

Neuroscience and Brain

Study: MDMA Appears to Be an Effective Treatment for Alcoholism

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has said that he hopes Neuralink will help people keep pace with future AI. But psychologist Susan Scheider warns that would be ill-advised.

Scientist: Merging Your Brain With AI Would Basically Be Suicide

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created chimeric mice with human brain cells in the hope that the animals could revolutionize Alzheimer's research.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Create Mice Containing Active Human Brain Cells

By Kristin Houser

A rare, brain-swelling deadly virus spread via mosquitoes was just spotted in Orange County, Florida, prompting public advisories warning to avoid bites.

Mosquitoes in Florida Are Spreading a Deadly Brain Virus

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis found that the "Cuban sonic attacks" may have caused U.S. diplomats' brain functions and white matter to be altered.

Brain Scans Show Abnormalities in Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack Survivors

By Victor Tangermann

Students in Oregon can now miss school for "mental health days," making the state one of the first to offer excused absenses for mental illness.

New Law Lets Students Miss School For “Mental Health Days”

By Kristin Houser

Neural Implant Sends Camera Feed Into Blind People’s Brains

Neural Implant Sends Camera Feed Into Blind People’s Brains

By Kristin Houser

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.

New Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are the Most Advanced Yet

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the University of Michigan found widespread traces of naturally-occurring dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in the mammalian brain.

Naturally-Occurring “Mystical” Psychedelic Found in Mammal Brains

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created the first noninvasive mind-controlled robot arm that exhibits the kind of smooth motion that previously required a brain implant.

New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm First to Work Without Brain Implant

By Kristin Houser

Experts: Brain-Stimulating Headsets Are Probably Snake Oil

By Dan Robitzski

A brain-computer interface can connect three people's brains, letting them transmit thoughts to each other to collaborate in a game of Tetris.

This Machine Lets You Play “Tetris” With Your Brain

By Dan Robitzski

In China, Surgeons Are Treating Addiction With Brain Implants

In China, Surgeons Are Treating Addiction With Brain Implants

By Victor Tangermann

New research reveals that extended trips to space are causing astronauts' brains to fill with excess fluid and swell, potentially damaging their eyesight.

Bad News, NASA: Astronauts’ Brains Are Filling With Liquid

By Dan Robitzski

A Stanford scientist says that "hearables," devices that communicate with our brains through our ears like smart hearing aids, are coming soon.

Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Monitor Our Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that two drugs may improve communication skills in people with autism. But the seemingly-conflicting results mean more research is needed.

Neuroscience and Brain

Controversial Research: Two Drugs May Reduce Autism Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski