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

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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.

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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.

Neuroscience and Brain

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Scientists may have uncovered a way to reverse the developmental disorder Angelman syndrome, but the treatment would involve gene-hacking fetal brains.

Injecting Fetal Brains With CRISPR Could Cure Genetic Conditions

By Dan Robitzski

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests

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This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests

By Natalie Coleman

A new study took the first steps toward figuring out which part of the brain is responsible for giving people nightmares and negative emotions during sleep.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Might Have Just Figured Out Where Nightmares Come From

By Dan Robitzski

A group of scientists associated with Elon Musk say they've invented a new way to wire a brain implant into the brains of rats.

Scientists Invent “Sewing Machine” to Implant Brain Electrodes

By Jon Christian

A new type of quantum material can directly measure neural activity and translate it into electrical signals for a computer.

Scientists Say New Quantum Material Could “‘Download’ Your Brain”

By Dan Robitzski

Electrically stimulating the brains of people in their 60s and 70s allowed them to perform as well on working memory tasks as 20-somethings.

Zapping Elderly People’s Brains Supercharges Their Working Memory

By Kristin Houser

Chinese scientists figured out that they could enhance a monkey's intelligence by introducing a single human gene linked to brain development.

Neuroscience and Brain

Chinese Scientists Gene-Hacked Super Smart Human-Monkey Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

The Stentrode, the first neural implant that doesn't require open surgery, is poised to begin clinical trials to help paralyzed people communicate.

This Neural Implant Accesses Your Brain Through the Jugular Vein

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found the a single dose of MDMA can help adult mice re-learn social behavior. They hope it can help people with PTSD.

MDMA Can “Reopen” a Part of the Brain That Closes After Puberty

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have implanted transparent skulls into mice to get an unimpeded look at their brain activity on a wider scale over a longer period.

Scientists Add Windows to Mice Skulls to Watch Their Brains

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that human brains continue to grow new neurons after birth, tipping the scales of a decades-long scientific debate.

New Study Suggests Adult Brains Might Grow New Neurons

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at Scripps Research say they've found a way to reverse rats' alcoholism by blasting particular neurons in their brains with lasers.

Scientists Reversed Rats’ Alcoholism by Firing Lasers at Their Brains

By Jon Christian

Scientists at Cambridge University say they've grown a miniature brain in a petri dish that seizes control of nearby spinal cords around it.

Lab-Grown Brain Uses “Tendrils” to Grab, Control Spinal Cords

By Jon Christian

A new study finds a link between the amount of green space surrounding a person's childhood home and their mental health as an adult.

Study: Growing up Around Green Space Halves Mental Health Risk

By Kristin Houser

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

For an upcoming trial, researchers will inject people genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer's with genes linked to a lowered risk.

Alzheimer’s Trial Will “Bathe” Patients’ Brains in Helpful Genes

By Kristin Houser

Research suggests that the specific genetic edits performed on now-living humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui could have broader-than-expected impacts.

Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Babies “Likely” Boosted Their Brainpower

By Dan Robitzski

A combination of molecules could making repairing the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain injuries as easy as swallowing a pill.

New Drug Combo Could Repair the Brains of Alzheimer’s Patients

By Kristin Houser

Researchers believe the brain reconstructs memories in the reverse order that it creates them, moving from the big picture onto the finer visual details.

The Human Brain Reconstructs Memories in Reverse Order

By Kristin Houser

The Pentagon's emerging technologies unit put out a call last week for proposals that use insect brains to control robots.

DARPA Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

By Jon Christian