As technology advances, the concept of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is shifting from the realm of science fiction to a ...

Researchers took brain scans of amputees before surgery and five years after it, and the results shocked them.

So President Obama has proposed a Brain Activity Map (BAM) project to reveal some of these remaining secrets, using the Human Genome Project as a model. Not all scientists, however, are on board.

The metaphor of the brain as a computer also breaks down in areas we do fully understand. Computation is the transformation of an input into an output based on specific rules (see Piccinini ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Brain-computer interfaces promise breakthroughs in restoring lost function and beyond. But they also raise ethical and societal questions about the ...

More information: Auburn R. Berry et al, The Non-Nutritive Sweetner Erythritol Adversely Affects Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cell Function, Journal of Applied Physiology (2025).

Biomedical engineers have achieved a major breakthrough in organoid research, pushing us closer to a new era of neurophysiological analysis and treatments. A team at Johns Hopkins University has ...

Last year, Elon Musk's Neuralink became the first to implant a brain-computer interface into a human patient. Noland Arbaugh, who was paralyzed in an accident in 2016, received "the Link" implant ...

Biomimetic AI seeks to copy the way a biological organism functions. If artificial intelligence ever operates more like the human brain, it will be far more energy efficient.

Healthy brain function relies on a steady supply of blood. Disruptions in blood flow are linked to major neurological ...