Your brain is constantly evolving. Throughout your life, it reshapes, adjusts, and grows stronger in response to learning, new experiences, and your habits. This amazing shape-shifting ability is ...

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the ...

The conversation on brain health has been growing in recent years, and 2024 was no exception. This year brought significant highlights, including increased investment in brain capital (also known as ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Pregnancy overhauls a woman’s body. The brain is no exception. A detailed study of a woman’s brain before, during and after pregnancy revealed sweeping neural changes, some of which stuck around ...

Elon Musk’s first human experiment with a computerized brain device developed significant flaws, but the subject, who is paralyzed, has few regrets. By Christina Jewett Just four months ago, Noland ...

Companies like Synchron, Paradromics, and Precision Neuroscience are also racing to develop brain implants This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter ...

Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part of a study testing a wireless device designed to produce rudimentary vision in blind people. Bussard is the ...

Has concentrating on simple tasks been a struggle for you lately? You may be experiencing the all-too-common phenomenon of “popcorn brain.” Imagine this: You’re in the midst of an office presentation ...

Why does it hurt so much to lose someone you love? What happens in your brain as it strives to cope? Pioneering psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor worked on one of the first neuroimaging studies of ...

If a drug could be said to be having a blockbuster moment, then 2023 is as much Ozempic's year as it is Pedro Pascal's. Since the diabetes drug caught on among celebrities looking to shed a few pounds ...