Tag: brain

Everyone knows that good readers make good students.  The question becomes –  how can we motivate and encourage children to want to read?  Steve Gardiner...

Clinicians have always had to rely on a patient’s behaviour and movement to diagnose a brain injury or track the impact of neurological diseases. Today,...

Eight paraplegics – some of them paralysed for more than a decade by severe spinal cord injury – have been able to move their legs...

Parallels have been drawn between the human brain and the computer since technology’s earliest days. One day, however, computing could be used to help brains...

We’re inching closer to building an artificial brain. Or so says Neil Jacobstein, an AI expert who has consulted on projects for the U.S. military,...

Brains from people with autism show patterns of gene expression similar to those from people with schizophrenia, according to a new analysis. The findings, published...

What are you planning on doing this summer? Probably not designing a revolutionary new bioreactor with which a thousand “mini-brains” can undergo testing. You’re probably...

Every time you blink, think or move, your brain generates electricity as individual neurons in the skull transmit information needed to make it happen. If...

Sensors based on nanothreads that are superconducting in liquid nitrogen are offering new ways of measuring activity in the brain. In the future, the technique...

The next frontier for the tech sector is the human brain. A new breed of neuro-hacker is finding ways to capture and manipulate brainwaves to...