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This Rhode Island man's story of his terrifying and rare brain mold condition reminds us that disease truly is everywhere.
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Man Alarmed When Doctors Discover Black Mold Growing on His Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers and scientists recently expressed their horror at Musk's goal to connect human brains to computer chips just as Neuralink enters human trials.
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Scientists Express Concern at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at the University of North Carolina and the University of Missouri did a study of 830 voters to understand the conservative and liberal brain.
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Researchers Say There’s Something Psychologically Strange About Trump Voters

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers have discovered that humans experience a “creative sweet spot” in the moments right before we fall asleep that can help solve tough problems.
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Human Brains Can Solve Hard Problems Moments Before Falling Asleep, Study Finds

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that he co-founded, plans to put brain chips in humans next year. 
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Elon Musk Says He Wants to Put Brain Chips in Humans Next Year

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Royal Society B reveals that grandmothers typically have an instinctual and neurological urge to care for their grandchildren.
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Scientists Scan Grandmas’ Brains, Confirm They REALLY Love Their Grandchildren

By Tony Ho Tran

J.M Stibel, a brain scientist, has discovered evidence that the size of human brains have greatly decreased in the past 50,000 years.
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Human Brains Are Shrinking, Scientist Warns

By Tony Ho Tran

Stanford scientists have developed a brain implant that allows a man with paralyzed hands to "type" up to 90 words per minute.
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New Brain Implant Turns Thoughts Into Text

By Tony Ho Tran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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.
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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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

By Jacob Banas

New research shows that marijuana use makes people more susceptible to believing a false memory, a troubling development for the legal system.
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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.
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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

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Elon Musk Claims Neuralink Can “Solve” Autism, Schizophrenia

By Dan Robitzski