A Duke University research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals’ sense of pain.
Subjects in the study simply needed to be given live feedback of their brain activity in order to control their brain waves.
Study funded by Facebook aims to improve communication with paralysed patients
One of the thorniest debates in neuroscience is whether people can make new neurons after their brains stop developing in adolescence—a process known as neurogenesis. Now, a new study finds that even people long past middle age can make fresh brain cells, and that past studies that failed to spot these newcomers may have used flawed methods.
A new research program on free will teams up neuroscientists and philosophers
Neuroscientists from Bochum have investigated why the brain stores some odors in a special way.
Weak signal over ultrafine wires targets region linked to learning.
In a paper published in July 2016, UVA researchers determined that the immune system affects – and even controls – social behavior.
