A team of researchers led by Angelika Lingnau, from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway has been able to predict participants’ movements just by analysing their brain activity. Th... Read more
A novel therapeutic approach for an existing drug reverses a condition in elderly patients who are at high risk for dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at Johns Hopkins Universi... Read more
Researchers at the MedUni Vienna have demonstrated the possibility of using a blood test to detect depression. While blood tests for mental illnesses have until recently been regarded as imp... Read more
Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion — the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic b... Read more
An ambitious project to map the brain is in the works. Possibly too ambitious NEWS of what protagonists hope will be America’s next big science project continues to dribble out. A leak to th... Read more
It also enabled him to move a robot arm to touch a friend’s hand for the first time in the seven years Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLo... Read more
A “sonar vision” system that enables people who are blind from birth to perceive the shape of a face, a house or even words and letters, is being developed by a team at the Hebrew University... Read more
Forget voice control or gesture recognition: gadgets may soon link directly to our brains Okay, great: we can control Our phones with speech recognition and our television sets with gesture... Read more
Understanding how the human brain categorizes information through signs and language is a key part of developing computers that can ‘think’ and ‘see’ in the same way as humans. Hiroyuki Akam... Read more
The letter-encoding technique required almost no pre-training Researchers at Maastricht University in The Netherlands have developed a device that gives a voice to those who are completely u... Read more
How would you like to have the ability to play the piano downloaded into your brain? You might not end up with the same sense of achievement, but it sure would be a lot quicker and ea... Read more
In the 1983 film Brainstorm, Christopher Walken played a scientist who was able to record movies of people’s mental experiences, then play them back into the minds of other people. Pre... Read more
Image via Wikipedia If neuroimaging can reliably discern truth from falsehood, should brain scans be admissible evidence in court cases? Brooklyn defense attorney David Zevin almost made leg... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts. The research, carried out in the UK and Belgium, involved a new... Read more
