The genes that predispose people to attain higher levels of education have been in decline over the past 80 years, and researchers are suggesting that they’re now under negative selection, which could have a big impact on our species in the coming centuries.
Older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three-year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely, new research shows.
As lifespans continue to get longer it's becoming more important than ever to understand how humanity will maintain its mental capabilities in old age.
Runners' brains appear to have greater functional connectivity than non-runners' brains, according to new research.
A brain-controlled glove is letting people with paraplegia perform everyday tasks like eating, drinking and signing their name.
A paralysed woman, who is "almost completely locked in," has become the first person to use a fully implanted brain-computer interface at home in day-to-day life without constant doctor supervision.
Scientists have pinpointed a network of three specific regions in the brain that appear to be crucial to consciousness.
Researchers have now used direct stimulation of the human brain surface to provide this basic sensory feedback through artificial electrical signals, enabling a person to control movement while performing a simple task: opening and closing his hand.
A new research by Newcastle University published in the journal PNAS has found that just like our skin over time, brain's folding is subject to aging via a loss of elasticity.
Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine regaining that sensation, a decade later, through a mind-controlled robotic arm that is directly connected to your brain.
A Duke team has mapped the distinct patterns of brain activity that correspond to seven different emotional states. The team says they can see various emotional states flickering across the human brain.
People were able to calm activity in the amygdala after seeing visual cues that responded to their mental processes.
Technology for reading signals directly from the brain could provide a way for people with movement disabilities to communicate.
Tiny magnetic particles from air pollution have for the first time been discovered to be lodged in human brains– and researchers think they could be a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
With a year of intense brain training, eight paraplegics regained partial sensation and voluntary control of their paralyzed body areas, despite having spinal cord injuries that were previously diagnosed as irreversible.
