Neuroscience

'What was that?' How brains convert sounds to actions

You hear a phone ring or a dog bark. Is it yours or someone else's? You hear footsteps in the night—is it your child, or an intruder? Friend or foe? The decision you make will determine what action you take next. Researchers ...

Neuroscience

Flicker stimulation shines in clinical trial for epilepsy

Biomedical engineer Annabelle Singer has spent the past decade developing a noninvasive therapy for Alzheimer's disease that uses flickering lights and rhythmic tones to modulate brain waves. Now she has discovered that the ...

Biomedical technology

Musk's Neuralink says issue in brain implant fixed

Neuralink, the brain implant company owned by Elon Musk, said that it had fixed an issue that saw its first patient's ability to move a computer cursor greatly reduced.

Neuroscience

Human brain map contains never-before-seen details of structure

A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard ...

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