Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

The FDA recently cleared this device for sale in the U.S. Research shows it can improve moderate to severe depression ...

Lead author Shrey Grover administering brain stimulation to Jim Soter, a participant in the study. Source: Credit: Robert Reinhart, Provided for publication by Boston University Neuroscientists at ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Mental illnesses such as obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and addiction are notoriously hard to treat and often don’t respond to drugs. But a new wave of treatments that ...

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

You're going about your day when, all of a sudden, you feel a strange, hard-to-describe sensation in your head-like an electrical bolt that seems to come out of nowhere. If you've never experienced it ...

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections, and as a result, in signal ...