Nomadsoul1 | Istock | Getty Images The question “What is a thought?” is no longer strictly a philosophical one. Like anything else measurable, our thoughts are subject to increasingly technical …
This image could be hung in a gallery, but it started life as a tiny chunk of a woman’s brain. In 2014, a woman undergoing surgery for epilepsy had a …
The research pinpoints the neuronal PAS domain protein 4 (NPAS4) as a pivotal element in the creation and preservation of drug-context associations. (IANS image) New Delhi: Cocaine has been notorious for …
Our brains are making choices before we even realise, causing us to effectively live half a second in the past as decision making and realising those decisions are apparently two …
A second person will soon receive Neuralink’s experimental brain implant, according to Elon Musk, the company’s cofounder. In a video update on Wednesday, Musk said the surgery is planned to …
“There has to be some kind of triage to remember what is relevant and forget the rest,” Zugaro said. “Understanding how specific memories were selected for storage was still lacking …
NEW DELHI: Denser grey matter in the cognition region of a brain could be helping serial entrepreneurs in adapting multiple strategies, enabling them to repeatedly launch new businesses compared to …
This is a digital reconstruction of neurons as seen by an electron microscope. The neurons are colored according to their relative size. These neurons, from an exceptionally tiny sliver of …
Rather than building a device from the ground up, Synchron and Paradromics have taken inspiration from previous medical devices. Paradromics’ design, for instance, is based on the Utah array but …
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic arm just by thinking about …