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

Resilience Corner

Neuroscience/Brain Science

"This really holds the secret to the next generation of therapeutics."

Scientists Intrigued by Man With Mutation That Protects Against Alzheimer's

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

Atlas of the Mind

It's an incredible achievement.

Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain

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

Brain Computer

"While silicon-based computers are certainly better with numbers, brains are better at learning."

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

A study conducted by scientists from Trinity College Dublin could suggest that quantum processes are involved in the functions of our brains.

Small Suggestion

"As a result, we can deduce that those brain functions must be quantum."

Scientists Suggest Our Brains Work Like Quantum Computers

A team of researchers at Stanford Medicine have created what they hope will one day be a life-saving treatment for brain cancer: a wireless brain implant.

Very Cool

Cancer

It literally blasts the tumors with heated up gold particles.

Doctors Test Brain Implant That Destroys Tumors

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.

DishBrain

This is incredible.

Video Shows Human Brain Cells in Dish Teaching Themselves to Play a Videogame

In a major neurological breakthrough, Stanford University scientists have successfully transplanted human brain cells into the brains of live rats.

Spooky Season

They appear to have grown new cognitive powers.

Scientists Transplant Human Brain Cells Into Living Rat Brains

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of.

Mind Games

"When they are in the game, they believe they are the paddle."

Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells in a Dish to Play "Pong"

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.

It's Electric

"It's sort of connecting to the so-called language of the brain..."

Scientists Say This Headset Significantly Improves Elders' Memory

Miraculously, surgeons just successfully completed one of the most complicated conjoined twin separations ever recorded — with the help of virtual reality.

Detachment Theory

Devices

It was "just really man-on-Mars stuff."

Surgeons Use VR Headsets to Separate Conjoined Twins

"Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke has spoken out about surviving two separate brain aneurysms while filming the epic HBO series in 2011 and 2013.

Brain of Thrones

Developments

"It was the most excruciating pain."

Emilia Clarke Says She Had "Quite a Bit" of Her Brain Removed

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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