In the next 12 months, the number of people with a brain-computer interface is set to double. Share. Resize. Listen (1 min) Synchron’s implant is placed inside a blood vessel in the brain.

Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause.

From a cubic millimeter of tissue, scientists constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

This Is Your Brain on Revenge. The neuroscience of vengeance shows that it can be as addictive as drugs—and forgiveness works like detox. By . James Kimmel Jr. Share. Resize. Listen (2 min) ...

Psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, bolsters brain connections between self and memory, thus opening the mind to change, a new study found.

Brad G. Smith, an ALS patient, regains communication abilities with a Neuralink implant, illustrating the potential of brain-computer interfaces in aiding speech impairments.

We’re looking at one tiny part … of a mouse’s brain and the beauty and complexity that you can see in these actual neurons and the hundreds of millions of connections between them.” How we think, feel ...

Working long hours comes with a slew of health issues, from too much stress to disturbed sleep, heart conditions, and mental-health disorders like anxiety and depression. It may even cause changes ...

If age is a state of mind, this is when the mind begins to decline. A new study has revealed that brain aging peaks at three distinct ages: 57, 70 and 78.. The research, published in Nature this ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Caffeine doesn’t just make it harder to fall asleep; it changes how the brain behaves ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.

Your brain’s natural rinse cycle flows while you sleep. A new study suggests certain medications interfere with that important nightly ritual. SCIENCE; Your brain ‘washes’ itself at night.