For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s ...

Prescription stimulants are among the most widely used psychiatric medications in the world. For decades, the prevailing ...

Testing involves scanning the brains of healthy participants and then subjecting them to a database of funny words, ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

Nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord are wrapped in an insulating sheath known as myelin. For a long time, this barrier, ...

BISC is an ultra-thin, single-chip brain-computer interface that sits between the brain and skull and uses 65,536 electrodes. The implant streams high-bandwidth neural data over a custom UWB link to a ...

Researchers at the University of Geneva, together with colleagues in Switzerland, France, the United States and Israel, describe how optogenetic control of brain cells and circuits is already steering ...

Researchers at Beijing Tiantan Hospital analyzed 101 glioma cases involving the brain’s motor pathway and found that one-third of patients developed permanent paralysis after surgery. High tumor grade ...

The long-held belief that brain structure is fixed early in life has largely given way to the well-established concept of neuroplasticity—the idea that brain structure and function continue to change ...