“Lifestyle choices, especially physical activity, can have a meaningful impact on how the brain functions over time,” said ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. A brain implant could help people type — ...

Eating a combination of two award-winning diets slowed aging in key structures inside the brain by over two years, according to a new study. While all three diets are plant-based and quite similar, ...

Nelson Dellis credits techniques like the method of loci for his extraordinary memory. Now, brain scans have revealed the ...

Whether it's riding a bike or knitting a sweater, there are some tasks you do without thinking. These are commonly associated ...

China’s medical regulator has granted a world-first commercial green light to a brain-computer interface, with a system designed to help restore some hand movement to people with spinal cord injuries.

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Loss of communication can be among the most devastating symptoms for patients with paralysis. A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and Brown University ...

In a landmark development, Neuracle Medical Technology has secured the country’s first-ever approval for an implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) system designed to restore hand motor function in ...

Eligible patients for the product must be aged 18 to 60 and suffer from a specific kind of spinal cord injury (Getty/iStock) China’s drug regulator has granted approval for a pioneering brain-computer ...

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