Medicine & TechnologyA new therapy to treat depression was developed by applying electrical stimulation to specific regions of the brain, inclduing the amygdala and the ventral striatum.
A 33-year-old man was recently reported to have experienced blurred vision, nausea, and headaches and was later told he had a brain condition that, if left untreated, can be fatal.
Samsung recently announced its approach to copy and paste the neural connection map of the brain onto a computer chip. It also said it can have the brain reverse engineered with the help of Harvard researchers.
Associative memory is the brain's ability to remember relationships between unrelated concepts. Scientists agree that it is formed in the memory center of the brain but the exact neurons responsible have remained a mystery until now.
Some say that left-handed people are smarter than right-handed individuals, but how can one's handedness determine their intelligence? Here's what research says.
Humanized 'mini-brains' were recently developed to provide neurology experts an exact replica of the brains of Parkinson's disease and dementia patients.
MIT research shows that brain cells break their own double-stranded DNA as one learns quickly. DNA damage, although known to have negative effects, has beneficial functions.
A new study shows that psychiatric conditions diagnosed through brain scans are often perceived as inborn and long-lasting, unlike those diagnosed through behavioral tests.