A look at the research around preserving our brain health and keeping mentally active.
A new brain-computer interface application that allows music to be composed by the power of thought has now been developed by scientists.
This may be the first ever recorded case of “healing” brain damage.
For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in, and then played back from, DNA in living cells.
Different types of memories stored in the same neuron can be selectively erased, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center.
A new study has discovered structures in the brain with up to eleven dimensions - ground-breaking work that is beginning to reveal the brain's deepest architectural secrets.
Scientists have discovered 40 new genes that appear to be linked to intelligence. The find could help to understand how the brain develops key functions associated with thinking.
An Italian neuroscientist who says he’s planning to perform the world’s first head transplant later this year has told a German magazine that he intends to thaw a cryogenically preserved brain and transplant it in a donor body within three years.
Led by the former head of DARPA and Google ATAP, Regina Dugan, Building 8 has created a way to talk to your computer with your brain.
A new study could change scientists' understanding of how the brain works - and could lead to new approaches for treating neurological disorders and for developing computers that 'think' more like humans.
A team of doctors has documented a case in which a terminal patient removed from life support continued to experience brain wave activity for approximately 10 minutes after they had been pronounced clinically dead. The team acknowledge that they have no explanation for what they observed.
A new study provides some of the first data on the changes in brain structure during spaceflight. Scientists found decreases in some gray matter areas and increases in gray matter volume for regions of the brain that control leg movement.
A clinical research publication led by Stanford University investigators has demonstrated that a brain-to-computer hookup can enable people with paralysis to type via direct brain control at the highest speeds and accuracy levels reported to date.
Researchers have confirmed that becoming a parent brings about more than just the obvious offspring - it also rewires the parents' brain.
The system, a portable brain-machine interface, translates brain activity into simple yes or no answers to questions with around 70 percent accuracy.
