In past research, Calvert and others in the field have been able to restore control over muscle movement for these patients ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes tremors, body stiffness and other difficulties with ...

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

A multi-center clinical trial is now enrolling patients to test whether surgically implanted electrodes delivering continuous ...

In a major shift for how mental health conditions might be treated, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home brain-stimulation device to treat moderate to severe major ...

But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life. Developing ...

A light pulse of electricity to the brain helped monkeys shake off a schizophrenia-like pattern of rigid thinking. They became better at recognizing change and adjusting their behavior. Researchers ...

Neuroscientists at University of Iowa Health Care have demonstrated for the first time that noninvasive brain stimulation can ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in vagus nerve stimulation. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection ...

NAVIGATED transcranial magnetic stimulation improved PTSD outcomes when added to intensive residential therapy for ...

What does it really mean when we use technologies to read our minds and modify our brains? This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your ...