Scientists Develop a Tool for Reading the Minds of Mice in Real-Time
Stanford scientists have developed a technique for observing real-time brain activity in live mice. The new tool may be useful in the fight against neurodegenerative…
Stanford scientists have developed a technique for observing real-time brain activity in live mice. The new tool may be useful in the fight against neurodegenerative…
New research from UC Berkeley suggests that sleep disruption in the elderly, mediated by structural brain changes, represents a contributing factor to age-related cognitive decline….
Using a brain-imaging tool developed for assessing neurological changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at UCLA have identified the abnormal tau proteins associated with sports-related…
Dyscalculia is a learning disability, which is sometimes called number blindness, and similar to dyslexia, but for numbers. Researchers estimate that as much as 7%…
A brainwave-controlled helicopter project was fully funded by Kickstarter, and is hoping to come into homes very soon. The project was initially posted as a…
Steve Chang and his colleagues from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, have discovered that monkeys have a specific area in their brains to keep…
Flaws in a test used in clinical trials to assess patients could be undermining the search for a drug to treat Alzheimer’s. The scientists published…
Researchers have discovered one of the reasons why it may seem like older people fall victim to financial fraud. Scientists have found out that the…
A new study from researchers at King’s College in London indicates that smoking rots the brain by damaging memory, learning, and reasoning. The scientists published…
The brain scans of French and Mandarin native speakers have shown that people use the same areas in the brain for reading, no matter what…
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new algorithm, known as ReFIT, that vastly improves the speed and accuracy of neural prosthetics that control computer…
Rappers improvising rhymes while their brains are being scanned in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine have provided an insight into the creative process….
A Canadian man who was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state for more than a decade has been able to communicate to…
Photographs of Albert Einstein’s brain were taken shortly after his death, but were never analyzed in detail until now. The analysis has revealed several unique…
Stressful experiences in the first year of life can drive hormonal changes in girls later in childhood. These chemical changes lead to abnormal brain connectivity,…
Little is known about general anesthetics, the drugs that put patients in a coma-like state, feeling no pain or discomfort while being operated on. A…
After a decade of research hinting that magnesium supplements could potentially boost your memory and cognitive abilities, it’s finally being put into a small clinical…
Exercising regularly in old age may stop the human brain from shrinking and showing signs of aging better than engaging in mental or social activities….