Biotechnology Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body If it were tried on a person, it might mean awakening in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber. by Antonio Regalado 2018-04-25T13:00:00-04:00
Humans and Technology The Surgeon Who Wants to Connect You to the Internet with a Brain Implant Eric Leuthardt believes that in the near future we will allow doctors to insert electrodes into our brains so we can communicate directly with computers and each other. by Adam Piore 2017-11-30T00:00:00-05:00
Biotechnology Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually happens in neurons and nerve fibers. by M. Mitchell Waldrop 2017-10-12T00:00:00-04:00
MIT News feature How the Brain Seeks Pleasure and Avoids Pain Neuroscientist Kay Tye tackles the physical basis of emotions and behavior. by Amanda Schaffer 2017-06-27T07:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life This Paralyzed Man Is Using a Neuroprosthetic to Move His Arm for the First Time in Years To reverse paralysis, scientists wired a man’s brain to his muscles using electronics. by Emily Mullin 2017-03-28T18:30:00-04:00
Connectivity This Is Your Brain on GPS Navigation Parts of the brain that are used to navigate and plan routes aren’t active when directions are fed to us. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-03-22T13:52:00-04:00
Humans and Technology Reached Via a Mind-Reading Device, Deeply Paralyzed Patients Say They Want to Live A brain-computer interface records “yes” and “no” answers in patients who lack any voluntary muscle movement. by Emily Mullin 2017-01-31T13:20:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Neuroscience Can’t Explain How an Atari Works The brain is complex—but when techniques developed to analyze how it works were applied to a chip running Donkey Kong, they were found lacking. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-01-12T14:00:00-05:00
Artificial Intelligence How Network Neuroscience Is Creating a New Era of Mind Control It might come down to the same network theory that rules computer science and economics. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-10-19T15:20:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Inside the World’s Largest Collection of PTSD Brains Scientists seek the holy grail for PTSD research: targets in the brain that could respond to drugs. by Emily Mullin 2016-10-14T00:00:00-04:00