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Are Functional MRI Scans Not Functioning Right?
Health

Are Functional MRI Scans Not Functioning Right?

By Colin Lecher

Mice Get Smarter After Scientists Inject Them With Human Brain Cells
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Mice Get Smarter After Scientists Inject Them With Human Brain Cells

By Colin Lecher

How Football Hits Could Lead To An Immune Attack On The Brain
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How Football Hits Could Lead To An Immune Attack On The Brain

By Francie Diep

How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions
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How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions

By Virginia Hughes

Neurons
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Obama Expected To Launch Massive Study Of The Human Brain

By Suzanne LaBarre

FYI: Do Zombies Experience Consciousness?
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FYI: Do Zombies Experience Consciousness?

By Shaunacy Ferro

Researchers Scare The Crap Out Of Patients Who Supposedly Can’t Feel Fear
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Researchers Scare The Crap Out Of Patients Who Supposedly Can’t Feel Fear

By Shaunacy Ferro

Researchers Capture A Zebrafish’s Thought Process On Video
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Researchers Capture A Zebrafish’s Thought Process On Video

By Shaunacy Ferro

Study: Your Doctor Really Does Feel Your Pain
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Study: Your Doctor Really Does Feel Your Pain

By Shaunacy Ferro

Breakthrough Study That Found Consciousness In Vegetative Patients Was Flawed
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Breakthrough Study That Found Consciousness In Vegetative Patients Was Flawed

By Clay Dillow

A 2010 football match.
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New Science Identifies Brain Damage In Living Football Players

By Tom Foster

Electric Brain Stimulation Warps Your Perception Of Faces [Video]
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Electric Brain Stimulation Warps Your Perception Of Faces [Video]

By Rebecca Boyle

A Knife On A Bottle Is The Most Unpleasant Sound In The World
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A Knife On A Bottle Is The Most Unpleasant Sound In The World

By Clay Dillow

Science Confirms The Obvious: Not Everyone Can Be Hypnotized
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Science Confirms The Obvious: Not Everyone Can Be Hypnotized

By Clay Dillow

How to Steal Personal Data From Someone’s Brain, Using a $300 Off-the-Shelf Brain Scanner
Technology

How to Steal Personal Data From Someone’s Brain, Using a $300 Off-the-Shelf Brain Scanner

By Clay Dillow

Scientists Read Monkeys’ Minds, See What They’re Planning to Do Before They Do it
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Scientists Read Monkeys’ Minds, See What They’re Planning to Do Before They Do it

By Clay Dillow

Brain-Scanning Binoculars Harness Soldiers’ Unconscious Minds to Locate Threats
Technology

Brain-Scanning Binoculars Harness Soldiers’ Unconscious Minds to Locate Threats

By Clay Dillow

First Images From Complete Map of Mouse Brain
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First Images From Complete Map of Mouse Brain

By Colin Lecher

Phineas Gage, Neurology’s Most Interesting Case, Gets His Head Re-Examined With a New Neural Map
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Phineas Gage, Neurology’s Most Interesting Case, Gets His Head Re-Examined With a New Neural Map

By Clay Dillow

Scientists Hijack Mouse Neurons to Take Control of Their Memories
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Scientists Hijack Mouse Neurons to Take Control of Their Memories

By Rebecca Boyle

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Invests $300 Million Into Mapping the Brain
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Invests $300 Million Into Mapping the Brain

By Clay Dillow

Video: McSweeney’s and the Stanford MRI Lab Host the World’s First Love Competition
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Video: McSweeney’s and the Stanford MRI Lab Host the World’s First Love Competition

By Dan Nosowitz

UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their Brains
Technology

UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their Brains

By Clay Dillow

To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Film
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To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Film

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals
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Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals

By Rebecca Boyle

There Is a Super-Entity Inside the Human Brain
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There Is a Super-Entity Inside the Human Brain

By Rebecca Boyle

Optimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans
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Optimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans

By Rebecca Boyle

Found: The Particular Brain Fold That Helps People Distinguish Between Imagination and Reality
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Found: The Particular Brain Fold That Helps People Distinguish Between Imagination and Reality

By Rebecca Boyle

Israeli Researchers Build a Rat Cyborg With a Digital Cerebellum
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Israeli Researchers Build a Rat Cyborg With a Digital Cerebellum

By Clay Dillow

Controversy Should Not Stop Us From Developing Memory-Erasing Drugs, Neuroethicist Argues
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Controversy Should Not Stop Us From Developing Memory-Erasing Drugs, Neuroethicist Argues

By Rebecca Boyle

Scientists Create Tiny Artificial Brain That Exhibits 12 Seconds of Short Term Memory
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Scientists Create Tiny Artificial Brain That Exhibits 12 Seconds of Short Term Memory

By Clay Dillow

Silicon Chips Wired With Nerve Cells Could Enable New Brain/Machine Interfaces
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Silicon Chips Wired With Nerve Cells Could Enable New Brain/Machine Interfaces

By Clay Dillow

Mind-Controlled Musical Instrument Helps Paralysis Patients Rehabilitate
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Mind-Controlled Musical Instrument Helps Paralysis Patients Rehabilitate

By Rebecca Boyle

Science Tricks the Brain into Experiencing Having Three Arms
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Science Tricks the Brain into Experiencing Having Three Arms

By Clay Dillow

Harvard Scientists Control and Steer Live Worms Using Laser Light
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Harvard Scientists Control and Steer Live Worms Using Laser Light

By Clay Dillow

Mind-Reading Scanner Could Record and Analyze Dreams, Says Brain Researcher
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Mind-Reading Scanner Could Record and Analyze Dreams, Says Brain Researcher

By Clay Dillow

Instant Expert: Rebuilding Human Minds
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Instant Expert: Rebuilding Human Minds

By Elizabeth Svoboda

The Human Connectome Project Is a First-of-its-Kind Map of the Brain’s Circuitry
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The Human Connectome Project Is a First-of-its-Kind Map of the Brain’s Circuitry

By Clay Dillow

New Neurochip Listens Closer Than Ever To Brain Cells Communicating
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New Neurochip Listens Closer Than Ever To Brain Cells Communicating

By Rebecca Boyle

An Injection Straight to the Brain Makes Rats Forget Their Fears
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An Injection Straight to the Brain Makes Rats Forget Their Fears

By Clay Dillow

Map of Fruit Fly’s Neuron Clusters Offers Glimpse Into Our Own Minds’ Layout
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Map of Fruit Fly’s Neuron Clusters Offers Glimpse Into Our Own Minds’ Layout

By Clay Dillow

When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain’s Internal Timewarp
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When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain’s Internal Timewarp

By Steven Kotler

A Magnetic Field Applied to the Brain Can Alter People’s Sense of Morality
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A Magnetic Field Applied to the Brain Can Alter People’s Sense of Morality

By Clay Dillow

Drug Treatment Could Sharpen Adult Brains
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Drug Treatment Could Sharpen Adult Brains

By Stuart Fox

New Optogenetic Neural Implants Use Precise Beams of Light to Manipulate The Brain
Health

New Optogenetic Neural Implants Use Precise Beams of Light to Manipulate The Brain

By Clay Dillow

Ultrasound Beams Could Destroy Stroke-Causing Blood Clots in the Brain
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Ultrasound Beams Could Destroy Stroke-Causing Blood Clots in the Brain

By Jeremy Hsu

The Quest to Read the Human Mind
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The Quest to Read the Human Mind

By Lisa Katayama

Details Of Brain-Implanted Speech Synthesizer For Locked-In Syndrome Revealed In New Paper
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Details Of Brain-Implanted Speech Synthesizer For Locked-In Syndrome Revealed In New Paper

By Stuart Fox

Scientists Find A Precision Clock Logging the Milliseconds Inside Your Brain
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Scientists Find A Precision Clock Logging the Milliseconds Inside Your Brain

By Clay Dillow

Chinese Scientists Engineer the World’s Smartest Rat
Technology

Chinese Scientists Engineer the World’s Smartest Rat

By Stuart Fox

The First Artificial Nerve Cell That Uses Real Neurotransmitters
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The First Artificial Nerve Cell That Uses Real Neurotransmitters

By Stuart Fox

Health

Turning Brain Waves Into Beautiful Music

By Dan Smith

Coming Soon: Photographic Memory in a Pill?
Health

Coming Soon: Photographic Memory in a Pill?

By Dan Smith

Unusual Neuron Could Explain the Smartest Species
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Unusual Neuron Could Explain the Smartest Species

By M. Farbman

What Would You Do With 4 Billion Dollars?
Technology

What Would You Do With 4 Billion Dollars?

By Steven Kotler

Everlasting Love: Science Proves Initial Passion Is Far From Fleeting
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Everlasting Love: Science Proves Initial Passion Is Far From Fleeting

By Rachel Durfee

The Infant’s Philosopher
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The Infant’s Philosopher

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

Mapping The Human Mind
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Mapping The Human Mind

By Laura Allen

Should Science Make Us Better Than Well?
Health

Should Science Make Us Better Than Well?

By Robert Sapolsky