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A new study suggests that daily smoking can shrink your brain, leading to dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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Smoking Cigarettes Does Something Horrifying to Your Brain, Scientists Find

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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Computer Made From Human Brain Cells Can Perform Voice Recognition

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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Lawmakers Demand Investigation Into Carnage at Neuralink

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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Kids Who Drink Lots of Soda Found to Show More Impulsive Behavior, Worse Working Memory

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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Marathon Runners’ Bodies Appear to Be Devouring Brain Tissue, Scientists Say

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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Hearing Bad Grammar Causes Physical Distress, Scientists Find

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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Neuroscientist Says We Don’t Have Free Will After All

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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Autopsy Found That Neuralink Implant “Ruptured” Monkey’s Brain

By Frank Landymore

A growing body of research shows that poor dental health is linked with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.
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Research Suggests That Bad Dental Health May Increase Risk of Dementia

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.
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Elon Musk Says Neuralink Tests Only on Terminally Ill Monkeys

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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If You Had a Concussion When You Were Younger, Scientists Have Bad News

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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Mitch McConnell’s Doctor Says His Brain Scans Are Clear

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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New Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Patient to Communicate Through Digital Avatar

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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New Drug Hailed as “Turning Point” in Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease

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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Anti-Aging Injection Boosts Memories in Monkeys, Scientists Find

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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Scientists Gave a Nazi MDMA and He Renounced Racism

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.
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Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

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.
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Scientists Intrigued by Man With Mutation That Protects Against Alzheimer’s

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.
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Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.
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Scientists Detect Surge of Brain Activity in Dying Coma Patients

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.
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Neuralink Seems to Be in Quite a Bit of Trouble

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.
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High Blood Pressure May Cause Dementia, Scientists Say

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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Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain

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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Paparazzi Won’t Stop Harassing Bruce Willis Even Though He Has Dementia

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.
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Regulators Reportedly Rejected Elon Musk’s Application to Test Brain Chips in Humans

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."
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Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

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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Bruce Willis Has Been Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia

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.
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Brain Chips Like Neuralink Cause Strange Cognitive Changes, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.
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Neuralink Under Investigation for Contaminated Brain Hardware

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices.
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Blobs of Human Brain Implanted in Rat Brains Replace Damaged Vision Functionality

By Victor Tangermann

Vivek Murthy is worried that kids are fighting a losing battle against social media giants that are trying to maximize their easily earned engagement.
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US Surgeon General Warns Against 13-Year-Old Using Social Media

By Frank Landymore

A team of Stanford scientists claims to have come up with a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that can decode speech at up to 62 words per minute.
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Scientists Say New Brain-Computer Interface Lets Users Transmit 62 Words Per Minute

By Victor Tangermann

Considering that the zombie fungus that infects human brains in The Last of Us is real, and currently zombifies insects, it's worth asking.
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Bad News: the Horrific Zombie Fungus in “The Last of Us” Is Real

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, people might be a little too willing to believe existential personality label-makers — particularly in machine form.
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People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

DMT is said to produce strangely similar trips for many who take it — and a new version of the drug may help people stay there longer.
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Startup Trying to Test Whether People on DMT Experience a Shared Alien Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's no secret that social media use can change adult brain anatomy — but a new study suggests that it may affect adolescent brains differently.
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Scientists Find Something Strange in Brain Scans of Kids Hooked on Social Media

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that stranded dolphins may be tragically suffering from Alzheimer's disease — a possible boon to the "sick leader" theory.
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Scientists Have an Extremely Grim Theory About Stranded Dolphins

By Frank Landymore

One guy took more than 40,000 ecstasty pills over the course of nine years and lived to tell the tale — and his story has become a cautionary party legend.
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Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms

By Noor Al-Sibai

Brain-controlled wheelchairs using a noninvasive a non-invasive interface allowed several paralyzed patients to control wheelchairs with up to 98% accuracy.
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Paralyzed People Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Electric Wheelchairs

By Frank Landymore

While shooting his new TV show, Chris Hemsworth underwent genetic testing that revealed he was carrying two copies of a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer's.
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Chris Hemsworth Reveals Grim Genetic Test Results, Will Take Break From Acting

By Frank Landymore

researchers claim in a study published last month in Cells Report Physical Sciences that they've developed a way to charge the implants solely through breathing movements — potentially making them completely self-sufficient.
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Scientists Build Brain Implant Powered Completely by User’s Breathing

By Frank Landymore

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin claim to have found a way to control how high mice can get on cocaine.
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Scientists Found a Way to Control How High Mice Got on Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

A psychological researcher may be close to "Eternal Sunshining" memories of romantic betrayals using a surprising medication regimen.
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Scientists Say They Can Damage Memories of Being Cheated On

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers claim to have built a "decoder" algorithm that can reconstruct what somebody is thinking just by monitoring their brain activity using MRI.
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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Read Thoughts Using an MRI Machine

By Victor Tangermann

In Scientists were, for the first time, able to show that 800,000 living brain cells trapped in a petri dish can be taught how to play the videogame Pong.
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Video Shows Human Brain Cells in Dish Teaching Themselves to Play a Videogame

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a major neurological breakthrough, Stanford University scientists have successfully transplanted human brain cells into the brains of live rats.
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Scientists Transplant Human Brain Cells Into Living Rat Brains

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharmaceutical developers Biogen and Eisai want to fast-track a new Alzheimer's drug, lecanemab, for FDA approval — but it's been met with mixed opinions.
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New Alzheimer’s Drug Appears to Actually Work, to Some Degree

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Multiple new studies appear to confirm that steroids — bodybuilding 'roids and the prescription drugs — are absolutely terrible for brain health.
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Steroid Use Linked to a Bunch of Very Bad Brain Problems

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study has found that, counter to popular belief, smoking weed doesn’t appear to actually make people lazy and apathetic after all. 
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Pot Smokers Not More Likely to Be Apathetic or Lazy, Scientists Find

By Jon Christian

A recent study showed that feeding rats Cola-based soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi caused enough damage to their brains to cause... uh, some... stupidity.
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Scientists Fed Rats Sugary Soda for Two Months and They Got Demonstrably Stupider

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of university researchers says watching TV as a sedentary activity is more likely to cause dementia than other activities, like computer use.
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Scientists Link TV Watching to Developing Dementia

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers may have discovered a new and effective way of stimulating and improving memory in older humans — and all they need to do is wear a headset.
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Scientists Say This Headset Significantly Improves Elders’ Memory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Psychedelics like LSD may improve brain function, including boosting learning and memory. It also improves mental health and brain injury.
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Evidence Is Growing That LSD Improves Learning and Memory

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Brad Pitt is one of the most recognizable faces in acting. But recognizing faces is something that Pitt himself seriously struggles with.
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Brad Pitt Says He Has Prosopagnosia

By Frank Landymore

Doctors and lawyers work hard to evolve the legal definition of death in a way that helps patients, grieving families and others.
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Lawyers and Doctors Struggle to Figure Out Who’s Actually Dead

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Neuroscientists are positing that issues with the brain's own waste removal system may be the root cause of Alzheimer's disease.
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“Poisonous Flowers” in Brain May Cause Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

If staring at this image makes you feel like you're being swallowed by a black hole, you're not alone. According to a new paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, approximately 86 percent of people experience the same effect.
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Argh! This Optical Illusion Makes You Feel Like You’re Falling Into a Black Hole

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research says EMFs emmitted by cell phones could be causing Alzheimer's because of excess calcium buildup in the brain.
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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.
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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.
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People Who Took Psychedelic Mushrooms Say They Lost Control of Their Bodies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cognitive neuroscience professor Guillaume Thierry explores the experience of death and how long our brains can stil process information after we die.
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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. 
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Woman Says Coors Paid Her $1,000 to Successfully Inject Advertisements Into Her Dreams

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

By Tony Ho Tran