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SEE SOME OF THE YEAR'S BEST IMAGES FROM NEUROSCIENCE
Take a look at some of the amazing neuroscience images out of the Queensland Brain Institute this year... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS TUNE INTO BRAIN TO UNCOVER MUSIC'S HEALING POWER
Stroke survivors who can't speak sometimes can sing, and music therapy can help them retrain brain pathways to communicate... READ MORE›
IF YOU THOUGHT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ONLY STARTED IN THE BRAIN, THINK AGAIN
This could also explain why Alzheimer's occurs with age, as the blood-brain barrier weakens and the amyloid-beta can move more freely... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Blue Brain Project
DEMENTIA DRUG DATA SET TO BE REVEALED
Eagerly awaited data on the most promising drug in treating Alzheimer's disease is set to be unveiled later... READ MORE›
NOBEL PRIZE FOR BRAIN'S GPS DISCOVERY
These grid cells are akin to lines of longitude and latitude, helping the brain to judge distance and navigate... READ MORE›
MICHAEL J. FOX: HOW TO HONOR MUHAMMAD ALI
Ali walks through the streets of New York with members of the Black Panther Party in September 1970... READ MORE›
HIGH-RISK MS THERAPY GIVES TRIAL SUBJECTS 'LAST SHOT AT LIVING'
The clinical trial, led by The Ottawa Hospital's Dr. Mark Freedman and Dr. Harold Atkins, involved 24 patients over 13 years... READ MORE›
THIS STARTUP USES MINI CAMERAS TO TRACK ANIMALS' BRAIN ACTIVITY
Kunal Ghosh, Inscopix's co-founder and chief executive officer, hopes to quickly expand beyond mouse and bird brains... READ MORE›
CURE FOR CHRONIC PAIN FOUND: WORLD FIRST AS PATIENT FITTED WITH PERMANENT SPINAL CORD IMPLANT
Dr Charles Brooker the specialist who fitted the implant said it was a big advance because the device could record signals emerging from the nervous system... READ MORE›
ALZHEIMER'S: ULTRASOUND SAFELY DELIVERS DRUGS TO DAMAGED BRAINS OF MICE
Scientists at Queensland Brain Institute find noninvasive technique slows progression of Alzheimer's disease in mice... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA SCIENTISTS DEVELOP 'BIONIC SPINE' WHICH COULD HELP PARALYSED PATIENTS WALK
Device can be inserted in the brain ndash without brain surgery ndash and could allow paralysed patients to operate robotic limbs ldquo using thought alone rdquo... READ MORE›
FIRST HUMAN-PIG CHIMERA EMBRYOS CREATED FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANT
Then, they introduced human pluripotent stem cells into the embryos to see if they would fill the so-called emptied developmental organ niches ... READ MORE›
'OLDEST HUMAN BRAIN' MAY HAVE BEEN PRESERVED BY MUD
A human brain, believed to be the oldest ever discovered, may have been preserved for over 2,000 years by mud, archaeologists have said... READ MORE›
BEN CARSON CLAIMS HE COULD ZAP STAFF'S BRAINS INTO REMEMBERING WHOLE BOOKS READ YEARS AGO
Ben Carson told his staff he could zap their brains into reciting whole books read 60 years ago. What?... READ MORE›
DAVID AMESS: FROM CHRIS MORRIS AND 'CAKE' TO SCRUTINISING DRUGS POLICY
Occupation Conservative MP for Southend West and newly appointed chair of the government's psychoactive substances bill committee... READ MORE›
HEALTH CHECK: STRESSED AT WORK? HOW TO BEAT COMMON TRAPS IN THE RAT RACE
Neuroscientist Selena Bartlett explains how we can prevent brain ageing, while also teaching our brain positive lessons... READ MORE›
IBM'S BREAKTHROUGH USES PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL
An artistic rendering of a population of stochastic phase-change neurons... READ MORE›
INDIA DERAILS TRIAL TO REVIVE BRAIN-DEAD ACCIDENT VICTIMS AMID CONTROVERSY
Both transcranial laser stimulation and median nerve stimulation have been shown to improve cognition in patients with traumatic brain injury... READ MORE›
MAGNETIC PULSES MAY EASE RINGING IN THE EARS
For people with tinnitus, they should try the management strategies that are available now, he advised... READ MORE›
STUDY ASSOCIATES ZIKA TO MORE EXTENSIVE BIRTH DEFECTS
Health officials have said growing evidence links Zika to microcephaly, a condition where babies are born with abnormally small heads and incomplete brain development... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS TAKE FIRST STEP IN GROWING HUMAN STEM CELLS IN ANIMALS
The chimeras would be generated by implanting human stem cells into an early pig embryo, resulting in an animal composed of mixed pig and human cells... READ MORE›
COMMENT: YOU HAVE A SECOND BRAIN IN YOUR GUT, AND IT WANTS CAKE
Achieving that same brain-firing feeling over time requires richer foods, or more of them... READ MORE›
EVERYDAY CHEMICALS MAY AFFECT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING FETAL IQ
Every stage of brain development is modulated by thyroid hormone and, over millions of years, the structure of this critical hormone has remained unchanged... READ MORE›
NEARLY COMPLETE HUMAN BRAIN GROWN IN US LAB SCIENTIST
You need an experimental system -- you need a human brain, he said... READ MORE›
IMPLANTED CHIP HELPS PARALYZED MAN REGAIN CONTROL OF HAND
In 2014, a surgical team at Ohio State used brain imaging to isolate the part of his brain that controls hand movements... READ MORE›
ZIKA INVADES PLACENTA, BRAIN OF FETUS IN MICE TESTS
Experiments using lab mice show how the Zika virus travels through the bloodstream, multiplies in the placenta and invades the brain of the developing fetu... READ MORE›
TEN-YEAR DIGITAL BRAIN STUDY YIELDS FIRST RESULTS
An analogy would be a computer processer that can reconfigure to focus on certain tasks, said Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project... READ MORE›
U.S. AGGRESSIVELY PROBING ALLEGED 'ACOUSTIC ATTACKS' THAT HURT 21 EMBASSY WORKERS IN HAVANA
U.S. officials are aggressively investigating what caused symptoms ranging from hearing loss to mild brain injury in 21 people linked to the U.S. Embassy i... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS SOLVE BIOLOGICAL BRAIN TWISTER
The deep folds that give the adult human brain its wrinkled walnut appearance were Nature's solution to fitting a large, powerful processor into a small sk... READ MORE›
OBAMA DIVERTS $589 MILLION FROM EBOLA FIGHT TOWARD RISING ZIKA THREAT AS GOP-LED CONGRESS DENIES FUNDS
Microcephaly is a typically rare birth defect marked by unusually small head size, signaling a problem with brain development... READ MORE›
PARALYZED OHIO MAN, 24, REGAINS PARTIAL USE OF HAND VIA BRAIN CHIP IMPLANT
NEW YORK - A paralyzed 24-year-old man has regained some use of his right hand, controlling it with signals relayed from electronic sensors in his brain... READ MORE›
STUDY FINDS ZIKA INFECTION MAY HARM ADULT BRAIN; MIAMI OUTBREAK SPREADS
Just what effect Zika infection might have on the adult human brain over time remains unclear... READ MORE›
RESEARCHERS MAKE MOUSE TRANSPARENT TO SEE INTO ITS NERVOUS SYSTEM
Researchers often study such afflictions by examining thin slices of brain tissue under a microscope... READ MORE›