For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

A Connecticut girl had no idea she had a rare brain condition since birth until she passed out and was flown to Hartford Hospital, where she would end up needing four ...

Bull riders face constant pressure, often operating in a state of fight-or-flight. When this heightened stress is combined ...

Researchers at the University of Glasgow just achieved what many thought impossible: transmitting light completely through an adult human head from one temple to the other.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient graveyard in Iran discovered what they believe to be a young woman's skull which had been intentionally modified. Researchers at the Chega Sofla cemetery, which ...

Visual agnosia is an inability to recognize objects, despite being able to see them. Read about its causes, treatment, ...

SpiNNaker 2 mimics brain architecture with 152 cores per chip and no disks, offering fast, memory-centric computing for ...

She was ridiculed for drilling a hole in her skull to increase blood flow, but her foundation’s research into the therapeutic ...

As companies such as Elon Musk's Neuralink begin human trials of high-risk brain implants, a new proposal calls for a major ...

Researchers testing a novel treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder found that pairing brain stimulation with ...

Casey Harrell, who lost his voice to ALS 5 years ago, can now communicate in real time thanks to an interface which turns brain activity into speech.

Taking the progestogen-only contraceptive pill desogestrel continuously for more than five years is associated with a small ...