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 ...

Launched in 2013, the BRAIN Initiative (BRAIN) in the United States aimed to unlock the mysteries of the brain and develop new treatments for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. The success ...

Philadelphia Students Graduate from Innovative STEM Program Focused on Brain Health, Leadership, and Resilience ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

You may be surprised to learn that the human brain, often studied under the lens of its electrical and chemical activity, also releases light. It’s a very faint, invisible light that has sparked a ...

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

The thin, flexible, wireless device sits next to a quarter for scale. Device emits complex patterns of light (shown here as an "N") to transmit information directly to the brain. In a new leap for ...