For more than a century, we’ve treated the brain like a bustling high-rise office. The neurons act as the high-powered ...

Failure avoidance has a bigger influence on changing human behavior than previously understood. Your brain holds a secret. There’s something in there that controls the keys to your behavior. It also ...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic arm using just their thoughts.

In a novel set of experiments with mice trained to do a sequence of movements and "change course" at the spur of the moment, Johns Hopkins scientists report they have identified areas of the animals' ...

Researchers researchers bring noninvasive EEG-based BCI one step closer to everyday use by demonstrating real-time brain decoding of individual finger movement intentions and control of a dexterous ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers are using sophisticated brain mapping to help reduce epilepsy symptoms. REB Images/Getty Images In a new study, scientists mapped lesions in the brain associated with ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...

A man afflicted with ALS has become the first person in the world to control an Amazon Alexa digital assistant through his thoughts — thanks to a brain implant created by a New York-based neurotech ...

ALS patient Brad Smith is the third person among 12 worldwide to have received Neuralink's brain-computer implant.

A new neuroimaging study suggests that oral contraceptive pills may alter how the brain is functionally organized. Researchers found that oral contraceptives reduce the individuality of brain network ...