The Quest to Treat Binge-Eating and Addiction—With Brain Zaps
Delivering small bursts of electric current via brain implants has long been used to treat Parkinson’s and epilepsy. Can it work for psychiatric conditions? ..
Delivering small bursts of electric current via brain implants has long been used to treat Parkinson’s and epilepsy. Can it work for psychiatric conditions? ..
Tiny cell clusters called organoids integrated with the animals’ own tissue, a step toward developing sophisticated mini-models of the brain. ..
Playfulness and tickling aren’t always considered “serious” subjects, but a new study shows how they can address key questions about the brain. ..
The Allen Institute’s release includes recordings from a whopping 300,000 mouse neurons. Now the challenge is figuring out what to do with all that data. ..
Neural networks can use self-supervised learning to figure out what matters. This process might be what helps humans do the same. ..
Neurons get a lot of attention—but researchers think this star-shaped brain cell type could hold the key to treating some disorders. ..
Individual choices and habits help the climate. Understanding how people think can make it happen. ..
Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details. ..
A small group of schizophrenia researchers thinks that personal narratives can tell us what test scores and brain scans can’t. ..
Instead of deleting genes, epigenetic editing modulates their activity. A new paper tests if it’s able to undo a genetic effect of early alcohol exposure. ..