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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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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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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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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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By Dan Robitzski

A brain implant that delivers imperceptible, personalized electric shocks is successfully treating a woman with severe depression.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests
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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.
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By Dan Robitzski

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

A new clinical trial is recruiting patients to see if a drug that stops ALS-related neuron death can also help people with Alzheimer's Disease.
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By Dan Robitzski

Cyberdyne's assistive exoskeleton, HAL, was approved for rehab treatments in early 2018. Now it's about to ship to five more hospitals.
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By Dan Robitzski

New research describes how optogenetics, which involves activating nerve cells with pulses of light, could vastly improve paralysis treatment.
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By Dan Robitzski

A Researcher Is Offering a Prize to Anyone Who Can Prove a Germ Causes Alzheimer’s
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By Kristin Houser

Artificial Consciousness: How To Give A Robot A Soul
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By Dan Robitzski

New Gene Therapy Could Stitch Together Damaged Spinal Cords
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By Dan Robitzski

Did An Acid Trip Change Your Life? Scientists Want To Know About It
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By Dan Robitzski

We’ve Reached A New Level In Bionics: Artificial Limbs We Forget Are Artificial
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Transferred Memories From One Snail to Another. Someday, They Could Do The Same in Humans.
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By Jacob Banas

To Understand Why Animals Behave The Way They Do, Scientists Need AI
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By Dan Robitzski

Dark Future: Here’s When We’ll Have the Black Mirror Tech That Lets Us Read Memories
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By Sarah Marquart

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By Dom Galeon

Dark Future: Here’s When We’ll Have the Black Mirror Tech That Lets us Share Physical Sensations
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By Victor Tangermann

Sight Unseen: Advanced Imaging Will Solve the Greatest Mysteries of the Human Body
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By Abby Norman

A Single Gene Could Have a Huge Impact on Age-Related Mental Decline
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By Brad Jones

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By Patrick Caughill

We May Have Uncovered the Biological Mechanism to Turn off Hunger
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By Chelsea Gohd