Inflammatory markers show immediate reduction following experiences of being deeply heard. This anti-inflammatory effect ...

She gets real-time reports ... impulses from his brain, via a computer, to control a robotic arm and even sense what its fingers were touching. That connecting the human brain to a machine would ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

A new device that monitors the waste-removal system of the brain may help to prevent Alzheimer's and other neurological ...

Brad G. Smith, an ALS patient, regains communication abilities with a Neuralink implant, illustrating the potential of brain-computer interfaces in aiding speech impairments.

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

Depriving people of their senses, like putting them in total darkness, or in a room without sound, is known as sensory ...

(Alarming levels of microplastics can be found in human brains.) Modern funeral practices, like embalming, can equalize some of these differences, but burial environments vary; a brain of someone ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

From birth to the last moments of life, the human brain is known to change and evolve significantly, both in terms of its physical organization (i.e., structural connectivity) and the coordination ...

A January executive order by President Donald Trump designates people as female if they make the “large” reproductive cell (the egg) and male if they make the ...

What happens in the brains of these insects during sleep turns out to be not so different from what occurs in the human brain when we sleep. In other words, sleep appears to carry the same ...