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By Noor Al-Sibai

Brett Favre, ex-Green Bay Packers quarterback, said he has the brain disorder Parkinson's disease, likely caused by countless concussions.
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By Sharon Adarlo

About a third of surveyed former NFL players in a new study think they have CTE, which stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

In a tweet, Neuralink patient Noland Arbaugh revealed that he's spending roughly three hours a day learning French and Japanese.
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By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink's second human participant is already playing first-person shooter game "Counter-Strike 2" by using his mind for controls.
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By Victor Tangermann

The bad news: scientists have discovered two new dementia risk factors. The good news: these new risk factors are "modifiable."
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of experts are saying that Trump's speech patterns have deteriorated in recent years, a big sign of worsening cognitive health.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have found a way to control the minds of mice by manipulating nanoparticle-activated "switches" inside their brains with magnets.
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By Victor Tangermann

As scientists continue brains in labs, one neuroscientist is asking the hard question: can lab-grown brains ever truly be conscious?
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The scientists pulled this karaoke stunt to embarrass their participants, and ultimately, to understand why we blush.
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By Frank Landymore

His findings showed that psilocybin "desynchronized" the brain, but also produced subtle, lasting effects in boosting plasticity.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

An analysis of over 100,000 medical records found that Ozempic users had a far lower dementia risk than those that took other diabetes drugs.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

Night owls or people who do their best work at night have higher cognitive function than people who are morning birds.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

The White House revealed in a letter yesterday that a Parkinson's disease specialist visited President Joe Biden repeatedly.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists in Japan reversed the signs of Alzheimer’s in lab mice by restoring the healthy function of neuron synapses in their brains.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

The writer of a new Donald Trump biography said the ex-president couldn't remember him on their second meeting.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

The neurons of our brains may exist at a critical point between two states of matter that can't be distinguished,
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By Frank Landymore

A startup in Switzerland has built a unique computer processor made from 16 tiny brains made from human tissue, basically a living computer.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

In a gruesome video, a biologist proposes that doctors can perform head transplants by using advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Despite issues manifesting in its first implantee, the FDA has given Neuralink the green light to implant a brain chip in a second patient.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors administered the "love hormone" oxytocin to patients suffering from feelings of loneliness, with intriguing results.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Jon Christian

Neuralink cofounder Elon Musk is now seeking a second volunteer to receive the company's next experimental brain implant.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Jon Christian

A Chinese company announced that they have successfully developed a brain chip and implanted it into a monkey.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The brain computer interface (BCI) device can be used by inexperienced patients to play games within just a few sessions.
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By Frank Landymore

Results from a study suggests that transfusions of blood, bone marrow, organs and other biological matter can spread Alzheimer's Disease.
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By Sharon Adarlo

People’s brains have gotten bigger compared to those born in the 1930s, according to research, and that bigger brains may stave off dementia.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The first person to ever get a Neuralink transplant previously had questions about the company — but his concerns, apparently, were quelled. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The first person to ever get a Neuralink implant in their brain learned about the company when a friend called him under the influence.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 58-year-old man suffered from a rare neurological-visual disorder called prosopometamorphopsia, in which people look like demons.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A livestream by Neuralink on Wednesday introduces the public for the first time to the first human recipient of its brain implant.
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By Frank Landymore

Neurobiologists researched the mysterious mechanism behind generalized fear in the brain and uncovered a method that may possibly stop it.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A big red flag, according to researchers, is that Neuralink has barely been sharing any information at all.
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By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that certain lifestyle choices warded off dementia symptoms in patients whose brains already contained Alzheimer's makers.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have 3D-printed functional human brain tissue for the first time.
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By Victor Tangermann

Patients who received the cadaver hormones when they were children in a banned medical practice show signs of Alzheimer's decades later.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

A new study suggests that daily smoking can shrink your brain, leading to dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have created a "biocomputer" from lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that can perform voice recognition.
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By Victor Tangermann

Congress members have urged the SEC to investigate Elon Musk for lying about how monkeys were treated at Neuralink.
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By Frank Landymore

A study says that kids who often drink soda are more impulsive, have bad working memory, and may drink alcohol in the future.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A new paper suggests that marathon runners' bodies might turn to the myelin sheath as a mid-race energy source.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists in the United Kingdom have pinpointed a physiological response from hearing someone mangle the English grammar in a new study.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurobiologist, thinks "free will" is really just the culmination of biology, upbringing, and circumstance.
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By Frank Landymore

Neuralink scientists kept the monkey alive even thought it was clear that it was already terminal from its severe brain swelling.
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By Frank Landymore

A growing body of research shows that poor dental health is linked with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk says that no monkey "has died as a result of a Neuralink implant" and that Neuralink only tests on terminally ill animals.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research that studied thousands of twins who suffered a concussion early in life has grim implications on cognitive decline.
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By Frank Landymore

Mitch McConnell's freezing spells have once again perturbed the nation, but there's apparently nothing happening that brain scans can see. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The device not only converts brain signals into text, but transforms it into full-blown speech embodied in a digtal look-a-like.
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By Frank Landymore

Scientists are calling a new drug called donanemab a "turning point" in the fight against Alzheimer's. A trial showed promising results.
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By Victor Tangermann

Klotho, a naturally-occurring protein that declines in mammals with age, can improve the cognitive function of aging rhesus monkeys.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A white supremacist took the party drug MDMA as part of a science experiment, and it reportedly helped him drop his racist, bigoted beliefs.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, scientists claim to have unlocked the secret of one man's extreme resilience to early-onset Alzheimer's.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists built a brain monitor that can be deployed through a tiny hole in the cranium and unfold like a flower between bone and brain.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's brain-computer-interface company Neuralink is facing major headwinds in its efforts to kick off human trials for its brain chip dubbed The Link.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A new study mapped how high blood pressure affects regions of the brain from over 30,000 patients, showing changes also linked to dementia.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore

They've produced the first ever complete connectome of an insect brain showing every single neoron and synapse, a landmark in neuroscience.
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By Frank Landymore

In spite of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, Bruce Willis' wife is saying that people are still accosting him in public.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

US regulators denied Elon Musk's Neuralink's application to start testing the company's brain chips in humans last year, Reuters reports.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Bruce Willis' family has announced that the "Die Hard" star has been diagnosed with dementia in their first update in just over a year.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Research has linked brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to bizarre, unpredictable cognitive changes — some that might completely alter your sense of self.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Frank Landymore