While that vision of pushing novel information directly into your brain is clearly fantasy, American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll only have to wait until 2045 for ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By Carl Zimmer A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs ...

Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit fly. The research ...

Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge number of cells and cell connections. It took almost 50 labs around the world to create a new neural map, or connectome, of an adult ...

Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Signals from those muscles control robotic joints, so the prosthesis is fully under control of the user’s brain. The system enabled people with below-knee amputations to walk more naturally and ...

Antidepressant Shows Promise for Treating Brain Tumors Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers have used a drug screening platform they developed to show that an antidepressant, currently on the market ...

Symptoms of depression fluctuate over time, but many brain imaging studies of the condition only study one point in time. That’s made it hard to connect networks of brain activity to various ...

In normal brain aging, crystallized intelligence remains relatively intact. But our ability to process information slows down. Speed drops by about 20 percent when we are 40 and may naturally ...