Inside the brain is a dense network of neurons that receive, process, and relay information. The synapse, where neurons meet, is the epicenter of this communication. Neurons that send information, ...

Jeff and Megan Carroll were sitting in a doctor’s office in Vancouver, Canada, more than two decades ago when they were asked one final time: did they really want to open the envelope? Inside was a ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Bryn Mawr family is searching for answers after their 17-year-old son suffered a traumatic brain injury during an attack in Wissahickon Park earlier this month. Instead of ...

A new McGill-led study reveals that digital brain exercises can rejuvenate aging brain systems responsible for learning and memory. Older adults using BrainHQ for 10 weeks showed restored cholinergic ...

Some people can't leave the house without a plan. Others make the plan up as they go and call it fine. And somehow, both types are convinced their way makes more sense. It usually comes down to how ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

The New York Rangers and Washington Capitals know a thing or two about dealing with a range of emotions out on the ice hockey rink. Players from each team answered questions about managing their ...

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse future conversations through inner speech or sense the heat of a fire without ...

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No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

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