New genetic tool could help investigate brain function and psychiatric disorders. Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School have found that a new class of light-sensitive proteins are capable of ...

Restoring lost senses or delivering precise brain signals has required invasive hardware and can’t mimic the brain’s natural, distributed activity patterns. This platform shows the brain can learn to ...

Every thought you have, every face you recognise and every memory you recall is powered by an organ that consumes roughly the ...

Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to interpret these artificial patterns as meaningful signals, even without touch, ...

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known as fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy), measures how light is ...