In recent years, brain-training apps and cognitive games have become a familiar part of modern wellness culture. From ...

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Honing your brain’s processing speed could stave off cognitive decline. That’s the key takeaway from the latest findings of ACTIVE, a US-based clinical trial examining whether brain training ...

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Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description.

Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...

Personalized, adaptive deep brain stimulation (DBS) can enhance the control of motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) compared with standard DBS, new research suggests. In a blinded randomized ...

Scientists train living human brain cells on a chip to play the video game Doom in a breakthrough biocomputing experiment.

High‑frequency brain stimulation that synchronizes frontal–parietal activity led people to choose more generously, suggesting that altruism depends on rapid neural coordination.