For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Is curing Alzheimer's disease an impossible challenge or can we get there? To find out I've been invited to watch brain surgery at the cutting edge of dementia research. I'm wearing scrubs at the back ...

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

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